Cover photo by Roberto Baldassarre
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. She graduated in Ancient Literature from the University of Bologna in 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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Productions
Movies
The Night Porter
(1974)
Beyond Good and Evil
(1977)
The Skin
(1980)
Beyond Obsession
(1982)
The Berlin Affair
(1985)
Francesco
(1989)
Where Are You? I’m Here
(1993)
Ripley’s Game
(Il gioco di Ripley)
(2002)
De Gasperi
The Man of Hope
(2005)
Einstein
(2008)
Too Much Love
(2011)
Francesco
(2014)
Shorts
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. Trial at 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
2000 – Orfeo e Euridice
2001 – Un Ballo in Maschera
2004 – Werther
2005 – Alceste
2006 – Macbeth
2018 – Ali Babà
