(20 june 2018) The Locarno Festival will pay tribute during its 71st edition (August 1st – 11th) to the extraordinary career of the Taviani brothers, remembering Vittorio who passed away in April. Paolo Taviani, Italian director and screenwriter, will be a guest in Piazza Grande. The tribute will be accompanied by the screening of the restored version of the film “Good morning Babilonia” (1987) by the National Film Library (CSC) and Istituto Luce-Cinecittà. As the authors of a language with deep poetic and political nuances, the Taviani brothers have written some of the most significant pages in the history of Italian cinema. Since the 1960s, the two masters of cinema have given life to a socially conscious and poetic cinema in which true stories are interwoven with contradictions and capable of bringing fundamental themes of political and civic commitment to the public’s attention. The Taviani brothers’ talent, which Locarno discovered for the first time in 1974 (San Michele aveva un gallo/St. Michael Had a Rooster), then in 1982 (La notte di San Lorenzo/The Night of the Shooting Stars); profoundly marked the history of the Festival. Paolo Taviani will receive the homage of the Locarno Festival in Piazza Grande, accompanied by the world premiere of the restored version of “Good morning Babilonia” (1987) produced by the National Film Library (CSC), and Istituto Luce-Cinecittà.
