Franco Piavoli
Known for
Directing
Born
June 21, 1933 (age 93)
Birthplace
Pozzolengo - Lombardy - Italy
Biography
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 lang...
Best known work
Nostos: The Return
1990
The Wind Blows Round
2006
Voices Through Time
1997
The Blue Planet
1982
One Lives by Love
1984
Venice 70: Future Reloaded
2013
At the First Breath of Wind
2003
Sweet War, Farewell
1991
Fragments
2012
The Seasons
1961Filmography
2023
Paradise Lost in Two Reelersas self
2020
2017
Vedete, sono uno di voiThanks
2016
The FeastDirector, Director of Photography, Writer
2013
Habitat [Piavoli]as Himself
2013
Venice 70: Future ReloadedDirector
2012
FragmentsDirector, Writer
2009
Mother EarthCo-Director
2009
Flora's GardenDirector
2008
I giorni dell'amore nascenteas Himself
2007
Lo zebù e la stellaDirector, Sound, Editor, Director of Photography
2006
The Wind Blows RoundThanks
2004
Tender PresenceProducer, Director of Photography, Writer, Director
2003
At the First Breath of WindDirector, Writer, Director of Photography, Producer
2002
Landscapes and FiguresDirector, Writer, Director of Photography, Producer
1997
Voices Through TimeDirector, Producer, Editor, Director of Photography, Writer, Sound
1991
Sweet War, Farewellas The Doctor
1990
Nostos: The ReturnDirector, Producer, Sound, Writer, Editor, Director of Photography
1986
Lucidi inganniWriter, Director, Sound Recordist, Producer, Director of Photography
1984
One Lives by LoveAssistant Editor, Producer
1982
The Blue PlanetDirector, Writer, Director of Photography, Editor
1964
ConvictsDirector, Writer, Sound Recordist, Editor, Director of Photography
1963
EmigrantsDirector, Director of Photography, Sound Recordist, Writer, Editor
1962
Sunday EveningDirector, Sound, Writer, Director of Photography, Editor
1961
The SeasonsDirector, Writer, Producer, Director of Photography