Father and Master

Synopsis

Six-year-old Gavino is forced to leave school after attending just a few days because his father, Efisio, needs him. Gavino must tend to the sheep and thus contribute to the family’s economy. When he is twenty, he knows all about life in the pastures, mountains, woods, and cattle, but he is still illiterate and can only speak dialect. Then he is called for military service.

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About the director(s):
The brothers Paolo Taviani (born 8 November 1931 in San Miniato, Italy; died 29 February 2024 in Rome) and Vittorio Taviani (born 20 September 1929 in San Miniato, Italy; died 15 April 2018 in Rome) were highly acclaimed Italian film directors and screenwriters. They always worked together and, throughout their careers, jointly won 57 film awards, serving as inspirations for numerous now-established international filmmakers. Paolo Taviani studied art, while Vittorio Taviani pursued law at the University of Pisa, although Vittorio did not complete his degree. In 1954, they made their directorial debut with a short film in the style of Roberto Rossellini. Their first independently directed feature film was I sovversivi (The Subversives) in 1967, which anticipated the events of 1968. The Taviani brothers gained international recognition through their feature films Allonsanfàn (1974, starring Marcello Mastroianni and Lea Massari) and Padre Padrone (1977, based on a novel by Gavino Ledda), which won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. In 1982, they told a story from the Italian Resistance’s fight against the fascist militia in 1944 in their feature film The Night of the Shooting Stars. With absurd humour, it shows how young men from a village are divided into two groups and eventually forced to shoot at each other. In 2012, the Taviani brothers won the Golden Bear at the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival for Caesar Must Die. For this film, they spent six months filming inmates in a high-security wing of the Rebibbia prison in Rome, as they rehearsed a performance of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. Vittorio Taviani passed away in Rome in April 2018, after a long illness, at the age of 88. Rainbow: A Private Affair(2018) was directed by Paolo Taviani alone, although both brothers were credited for the screenplay. In 2022, Paolo Taviani completed the feature film Leonora addio, which was invited to compete at the Berlinale. Paolo Taviani passed away on 29 February 2024 in Rome, aged 92, after a brief illness.

Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani

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