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Fratelli Taviani - La passione e l'utopia - Part 17 View Series View This Episode

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The Taviani brothers, at around eighty years of age, feel like they have gone back to their more reckless early days, with Caesar Must Die.

Fratelli Taviani - La passione e l'utopia - Part 18 View Series View This Episode

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Nanni Moretti tells about how he got to see Caesar Must Die before it was released. The composer, Giuliano Taviani talks about how he became interested in writing music for film, and how budget limits actually inspired him in writing the music for this movie.

Fratelli Taviani - La passione e l'utopia - Part 19 View Series View This Episode

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Music plays an essential role in the films of the Taviani brothers. It's like having another actor. Composer Nicola Piovani knows something about this having worked with them on some of their movies. He also composed the soundtrack for the movie La Vita è Bella (Life is Beautiful) with Roberto Benigni.

Fratelli Taviani - La passione e l'utopia - Part 20 View Series View This Episode

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Music and sound have major roles in the movies of the Taviani brothers. Notably, the tarantella from Allonsanfàn, written by Ennio Morricone, was also used by Tarantino in one of his movies, and that's when it became famous.

Fratelli Taviani - La passione e l'utopia - Part 21 View Series View This Episode

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We learn about the ideas behind the movies, Father and Master and The Night of the Shooting Stars, and how music played a major role in both movies.

Fratelli Taviani - La passione e l'utopia - Part 22 View Series View This Episode

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The Taviani brothers were adolescents during World War II, and talk about how tense it was growing up with the Germans and fascists so close by. A woman at a bar gives them directions to find one of the locations for filming The Night of the Shooting Stars.

Fratelli Taviani - La passione e l'utopia - Part 23 View Series View This Episode

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The Taviani brothers reveal some tricks used during the filming of The Night of San Lorenzo and tell us how they managed to combine a particular sequence of the film with the cornerstone of Greek literature, The Iliad.

Fratelli Taviani - La passione e l'utopia - Part 24 View Series View This Episode

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It's not often that two people, let alone brothers, can work together in perfect harmony. But artists who have worked with the Taviani brothers say they came very close. Paolo and Vittoio knew what they wanted and they knew how they wanted to obtain it, down to the letter.

Fratelli Taviani - La passione e l'utopia - Part 25 View Series View This Episode

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This is the final installment of the documentary dedicated to the Taviani brothers. It concludes as they do some location scouting in the marvelous old city of Montepulciano for Maraviglioso Boccaccio (Wondrous Boccaccio), a 2015 film. Vittorio Taviani died in 2015 at the age of 88, and Paolo is 89 and still making films.

Francesca Vitalini - Speranza per la Palestina - Part 1 View Series View This Episode

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Besides working as a journalist, Francesca is involved in some international projects for sustainability. Here, she tells about a hospital in Gaza.

Francesca Vitalini - Speranza per la Palestina - Part 2 View Series View This Episode

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"Sunshine for Palestine" has set in motion an innovative project for teaching the latest scientific theories to young people, and it has been enormously successful.

Fellini Racconta - Un Autoritratto Ritrovato - Part 2 View Series View This Episode

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Fellini, interviewed at the Trevi Fountain, during the filming of La Dolce Vita, discussed his relationships with producers.

Fellini Racconta - Un Autoritratto Ritrovato - Part 3 View Series View This Episode

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Fellini describes his relationship to a producer who became so exasperated by the director, that he drank ink in mock suicide.

Fellini Racconta - Un Autoritratto Ritrovato - Part 4 View Series View This Episode

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Crowds of Romans gather to watch the filming of Anita Ekberg in the Trevi Fountain. Federico Fellini tells of his inspirations for the film La Dolce Vita.

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