Liliana Cavani

Liliana Cavani was born in Carpi, near Modena. A graduate in classics from the University of Bologna, she then attended courses at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome and in the early 1960s joined Italian public television, for which she made historical documentaries on the Third Reich, on Stalin and on the Resistance. One of them received a Golden Lion in Venice in 1965. She moved to fiction from 1966 and also directed operas.

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• CinemaThe Night PorterIl portiere di notteLiliana Cavani · 1974Cinema