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Trailer "L'ordine del tempo"

Biography

Liliana Cavani was born in Carpi, in the province of Modena. Her father was an architect from Mantua, and her mother was a keen cinemagoer, who would take her daughter to the cinema every Sunday. Si laurea in Lettere Antiche a Bologna nel 1959. While a student, together with a number of friends in Carpi she founded a film club, which allowed her both to see and to show films that would not otherwise have reached the town. After graduating, she went to Rome to attend the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, attending the course on film directing.

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Shorts

1961 – Night Encounter

1962 – The Battle

2012 – Clarisse

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Documentaries

1961 – The Military Life

1961 – Theater People

1961 – The Bureucrat

1961 – Assault on the Consumer

1962 – History of the Third Reich

1963 – The Age of Stalin

1964 – Housing in Italy

1965 – My Brother Jesus

1965 – Day of Peace

1965 – The Woman of the Resistance

1965 – Philippe Pétain. Processo a Vichy

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Opera

1979 – Wozzeck

1984 – Iphigenie en Tauride

1986 – Médée

1990 – La Traviata

1991 – Cardillac

1993 – Jenufa

1993 – La Vestale

1995 – La Cena delle Beffe

1996 – Cavalleria Rusticana

1998 – Manon Lescaut

1998 – Pagliacci

2000 – Orfeo e Euridice

2001 – Un Ballo in Maschera

2004 – Werther

2005 – Alceste

2006 – Macbeth

2018 – Ali Babà

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Prose

2017 – Filumena Marturano

2018 – The pleasure of honesty

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Screenplays

1969 – The Liuzzo Case

1973 – Letters from Inside. Story of a Film on Simone Weil

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