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Kaos by the Taviani brothers to celebrate 150 years of Pirandello

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Kaos by the Taviani brothers to celebrate 150 years of Pirandello

(June 6, 2017) Celebrating the 150th anniversary of Pirandello's birth with two of the biggest signatures of Italian cinema: Paolo and Vittorio Taviani's Kaos (Italy, 1984, 157’) will be screened with Chinese subtitles at the Auditorium Of the Italian Cultural Institute in Beijing on Wednesday, June 7 at 7PM. The film, played by Franco Franchi and Ciccio Ingrassia, takes place in four episodes and an epilogue. Common thread linking episodes is a black raven that pounds over Sicily of Pirandello with a bell hanging on his neck. It is based on four of the Short Stories for a Year by the nobel prize winner writer, plus a fifth story imagined by directors, but inspired by the novels "One Day" and "Talk with Characters". The film won the Donatello David in 1985. Faithful to their poetry, the Taviani brothers chose four stories of fields and peasants, humiliated and offended by misery, injustice, and superstitions. (Red)


ABOUT / THE TAVANI BROTHERS

After collaborating with V. Orsini mainly as documentarists, screenwriters and feature film directors, in 1967 brothers Paolo and Vittorio Taviani began their independent activity, directing together, The subversives. Consistent interpreters of a cinematic engagement, in the second phase of their career, while continuing to represent the need and regret of utopia, they devoted mainly to the recall of the past and the film transcription of literary works; Let's remember: Sotto il segno dello Scorpione (1969); San Michele aveva un gallo ... (1971); Allonsanfàn (1974); Padre padrone (1977); La notte di San Lorenzo (1982); Kaos (1984); Fiorile (1993); Le affinità elettive (1996); Tu ridi (1998). In 2007 they release La masseria delle allodole, which tells the genocide of the Armenian people during the First World War, while in 2012 the two directors directed Caesar must die, a prison drama set in Rebibbia, which in the same year was awarded the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival and two David of Donatello awards, for best movie and best director, were awarded to Taviani. In 2015, they went back to directing with Wonderous Boccaccio, freely inspired by Decameron. In 2016 they received the Special David of Donatello for the 60th anniversary of the ceremony. (Source: Treccani)

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