Liliana cavani biography

Liliana Cavani was.
Liliana Cavani (born 12 January 1933) is an Italian film director and screenwriter.
Liliana Cavani is an Italian film director and screenwriter.

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Liliana Cavani

Liliana Cavani (Italy, 1933) debuted with the television movies Francesco d'Assisi (1966) and Galileo (1968), and the the political allegory I Cannibali (1970), which is loosely based on Sophocles' "Antigone". After L�Ospite/ The Guest (1971) and the Tibetan biopic Milarepa (1973), she directed her main work, Il Portiere di Notte/ The Night Porter (1974) After Al di la` del Bene e del Male/ Beyond Good and Evil (1977), La Pelle/ The Skin (1981), which is an adaptation of Curzio Malaparte's novel, Oltre la Porta/ Beyond the Door (1982), she made Interno Berlinese/ The Berlin Affair (1985), based on Junichiro Tanizaki's novel "Quicksand".
She became mainly a director of operas. She still directed the films Francesco (1989), Dove Siete? Io Sono qui/ Where Are You? I'm Here (1993) and Il Gioco di Ripley/ Ripley's Game (2002), an adaptation of the Patricia Highsmith novel.

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Liliana Cavani

Italian film director and screenwriter (born 1933)

Liliana Cavani (born 12 January 1933)^[1] is an Italian film director and screenwriter.^[2] Cavani became internationally known after the success of her 1974 feature film Il portiere di notte (The Night Porter). Her films have historical concerns.^[3] In addition to feature films and documentaries, she has also directed opera.

Early life

Cavani was born in Carpi, near Modena in the regione of Emilia-Romagna.^[4] Cavani's father, an architect from Mantua, belonged to a conservative bourgeois family of landowners. "My father was an architect interested in urban development. He took me to museums. He had worked in urban planning in Baghdad in 1956, when Iraq was still under British control. My mother was very strong, very capable, and very sweet", Cavani explained in an interview. Her mother was passionate about films and took her to the movies every Sunday from an early age. On her mother's side, Cavani came from a working-class family of militant antifascists.

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Biography

With The Night Porter (1973) Cavani was to focus on the study of an ambiguous relationship between the torturer and victim.

This meant breaking with the traditional cinematographic models according to which the protagonist cannot be a Nazi, a “hero” of evil, and caused no end of heated debate on the film, especially in France.

In Italy on the other hand, the reason behind the cry of “scandal” was largely based on the issue of the sex scenes, despite the film receiving strong approval from a number of prestigious critics.

The film looks at the ambiguity of human nature: in general terms in the relationship between the Furher and his fanatic devotees, and in particular in the mysterious relationship between torturer and victim.
Set in Vienna in 1954, the protagonist of the film is an ex-Nazi hotel porter, who by chance comes across Lucia, a concentration-camp survivor, with whom he had had a sadomasochistic relationship.
This relationship starts once again, but in the meantime, Lucia has become a dangerous witness whom other ex-Nazis want t