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Franco Piavoli (born 21 June 1933) is an Italian film director, screenwriter, and producer.
Piavoli studied law at the University of Pavia in Lombardy.Throughout the 1950s and 1960s he made a number of short films: Uccellanda (1953), Ambulatorio (1954), Incidente (1955), La stagioni (1960), Domenica sera (1962), Emigranti (1963), and Evasi (1964).
Nearly 20 years later, Piavoli released his first feature film The Blue Planet in 1982, which competed at the 39th Venice International Film Festival. Piavoli later directed Nostos: The Return in 1989, a film inspired by Ulysses' return to Ithica in the Odyssey, and contains only sparse dialogue that imitates "sounds of ancient Mediterranean languages".
In 2009, Piavoli worked with Ermanno Olmi on Olmi's documentary about food production Terra Madre.
Most Popular Franco Piavoli Trailers
Total trailers found: 28
16 March 2017
The film is the personal story of a protagonist of our times and traces Carlo Martini's actions and thoughts, as he has remained faithful to its vocation and ideals.
05 June 2006
The aging, conservative population of a small, sleepy village in the Italian Alps are surprised to see that a former French professor has settled there with his young wife and their three children to produce goat cheese, in order to escape the wrongs of civilization.
14 May 2023
Franco Piavoli is one of the most important directors among Italian independent panorama. Through the years, He built one unique and authentic cinematographic grammar.
13 November 2012
Fragments of a collaboration between director Franco Piavoli (The Blue Planet, The First Breath of Wind) and students of the Laboratory Making Cinema founded by Marco Bellocchio.
08 August 2016
The feast of St. Peter in a country village. The priest admonishes his parishioners to confess and be free of avarice, but after mass he invites them all to make merry.
28 August 2013
Made for the Venice Film Festival's 70th anniversary, seventy filmmakers made a short film between 60 and 90 seconds long on their interpretation of the future of cinema.
26 May 1990
At the end of the war, Odysseus, the wandering hero, with his companions begins his sail back home to the Mediterranean.
07 November 2013
Franco Piavoli in his world.
11 September 1991
A man walks with his child on the grass of a hill. He reaches an old country house, where years before he had spent his childhood during World War II.
01 March 2007
A zebu disappears while children are drawing it. They find it again in the woods. The notes of a harp accompany their multi-coloured joy.
03 April 1986
In a Renaissance castle, masks and costumes are moving animated by moonlight. In this magical atmosps
08 February 2020
Very short documentary about filmmaker Franco Piavoli.
06 June 2008
Documentary about Franco Piavoli
12 November 1997
Visual ode to contemplative journey through the stages of life and the essence of human existence, set in a timeless backdrop of an Italian village.
01 January 1961
Eternal and cyclical movement. A young woman crosses the seasons. With his 8mm Paillard, Piavoli starts his poetic journey with a drawn-out gaze on nature, which condenses passing time into a single shot.
31 October 1979
Directed by a group of avant-garde filmmakers, the film is an investigation of the less edifying aspects of film industry.
08 May 2009
Documentary about sustainable agriculture and food.
01 December 1982
A look at the passage of time through the changing seasons, human evolution and everyday life.
26 September 2003
Set on an August afternoon in the Lombardy countryside, a family lingers around the table after a long summer meal.
01 January 1963
Emigrants from Calabria arrive at Milan station with their luggage, to make their home there or set off for other destinations.
01 January 1964
The short registers a sports spectacle of great importance (probably of soccer). We never see the spectacle itself but the people watching and reacting at the stadium.
12 June 1984
Through interviews with prostitutes, transsexuals, marginalized people, and the disabled, the director tells a series of stories about sexuality and feelings.
01 January 2002
A forerunner of Al Primo Soffio Di Vento. Observations along the riverside, the flow of water, the stasis of life, and the emergence of a teenager’s sexual desires.
08 May 2009
Throughout the seasons, the work of a farmer in his vegetable garden, from the seed to its fruit.
01 January 1959
Visions and suggestions of the shores of Lake Garda.
01 January 1962
Young peasants come together to dance in the evening. The girls arrive by bike; the boys get ready for them by doing their hair.
01 December 2004
2004 documentary by Franco Piavoli based on correspondence between poets Alessandro Parronchi and Umberto Bellintani.
