Franco Piavoli

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1933-06-21 (92 years old)

Place of Birth

Pozzolengo - Lombardy - Italy

Franco Piavoli

Biography

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 t...

Production

1982

The Blue Planet

as Director

1997

1990

1990

2012

Fragments

as Director

1964

Convicts

as Director

1961

The Seasons

as Director

1962

Sunday Evening

as Director

1963

Emigrants

as Director

1954

Surgery

as Director

2016

The Feast

as Director

1990

1997

1997

1997

Voices Through Time

as Director of Photography

1982

2002

2007

1962

1990

1997

2004

2004

Affettuosa presenza

as Director of Photography

2016

The Feast

as Director of Photography

2009

Mother Earth

as Co-Director

2004

2004

2009

Flora's Garden

as Director

2002

Landscapes and Figures

as Director of Photography

2002

1963

Emigrants

as Director of Photography

1964

Convicts

as Writer

1961

The Seasons

as Writer

1964

Convicts

as Sound Recordist

2007

Lo zebù e la stella

as Director of Photography

1986

1962

1962

Sunday Evening

as Director of Photography

1963

Emigrants

as Sound Recordist

1986

Lucidi inganni

as Director

1963

Emigrants

as Writer

1986

Lucidi inganni

as Sound Recordist

1961

The Seasons

as Producer

1964

Convicts

as Editor

1962

1961

The Seasons

as Director of Photography

1963

Emigrants

as Editor

1986

Lucidi inganni

as Producer

1990

1990

Nostos: The Return

as Director of Photography

1986

Lucidi inganni

as Director of Photography

1984

One Lives by Love

as Assistant Editor

2003

At the First Breath of Wind

as Director of Photography

1964

Convicts

as Director of Photography

1982

The Blue Planet

as Director of Photography

1982

2016

The Feast

as Writer

2012

Fragments

as Writer

1959

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