Franco Piavoli

Birthday: 1933-06-21
Birthplace: Pozzolengo - Lombardy - Italy
Gender: Male

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 languages".

In 2009, Piavoli worked with Ermanno Olmi on Olmi's documentary about food production Terra Madre.

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Credits

Year Title
2016-08-08 The Feast
2013-08-28 Venice 70: Future Reloaded
2012-11-13 Fragments
2009-05-08 Flora's Garden
2007-03-01 Lo zebù e la stella
2004-12-01 Affettuosa presenza
2003-09-26 At the First Breath of Wind
2002-01-01 Landscapes and Figures
1997-11-12 Voices Through Time
1990-05-26 Nostos: The Return
1986-04-03 Lucidi inganni
1982-12-01 The Blue Planet
1964-01-01 Convicts
1963-01-01 Emigrants
1962-01-01 Sunday Evening
1961-01-01 The Seasons
1959-01-01 Sul lago di Garda
1954-01-01 Surgery