NIGHT OF THE SHOOTING STARS (LA NOTTE DI SAN LORENZO) BY PAOLO AND VITTORIO TAVIANI

The film Night of the Shooting Stars follows a number of inhabitants of an Italian town at the end of Second World War. The Germans are sure to be defeated and the front is moving back to Germany by leaving a path of destruction. As the German decides to bomb many buildings in the town they ask the villagers to concentrate in a town church. Half of the town stays inside the church and the rest wearing dark mourning dresses go to the nearby Americans.

Key casts are Omero Antonutti as Galvano, Margarita Lozano as Concetta, Claudio Bigagli as Corrado.



10 Reasons you should watch Night of the Shooting Stars:

1. Directed by Paolo Taviani and Vittorio Taviani the film Night of the Shooting Stars is a complete film having comedy, tragedy, melodrama and vaudeville all inextricable.
2. Night of the Shooting Stars creates a magical mood with lyricism, poetry, fantasy, reality and brutality all mixed in the right way.
3. Taviani's Night of the Shooting Stars is a parabolic Italian films.
4. The film is one of the best Italian movies ever made on wars.
5. The film can be ranked as one of the top 100 foreign films.
6. The Italian neorealism film has got a strong social message to deliver.
7. Director Paolo Taviani and Vittorio Taviani had created a masterpiece with this movie.
8. Night of the Shooting Stars is shown in Film Festivals.
9. The performances of all the actors are very natural.
10. The top Italian movie is a must watch for all film lovers.

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The night of the shooting stars s a 1982 film directed by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani. It is the night when dreams come true in Italian folklore. In 1944, a group of Italians flee their town after hearing rumours that the Nazis plan to blow it up and that the Americans are about to arrive to liberate them.

Padre Padrone.(1977) is an Italian film directed by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani. The Tavianis used both professional and non-professional actors from the Sardinian countryside. The drama was originally filmed by the Taviani brothers for Italian television but won the 1977 Palme d'Or prize at the 1977 Cannes Film Festival.

Paolo and Vittorio Taviani (b. November 8, 1931, and September 20, 1929, respectively, both in San Miniato, Tuscany, Italy) are noted Italian film directors and screenwriters. They are brothers, who have always worked together, each directing alternate scenes.

Paolo Taviani's wife Lina Nerli Taviani has been costume designer of many of their films. At the Cannes Film Festival the Taviani brothers won Palme d'Or and the FIPRESCI prize for Padre padrone in 1977 and Grand Prix du Jury for La notte di San Lorenzo in 1982.

1950s-1960s

* San Miniato, luglio '44 (1954)
* L'Italia non è un paese povero (1960)
* Un uomo da bruciare (1962)
* I fuorilegge del matrimonio (1963)
* I sovversivi (1967)
* Sotto il segno dello scorpione (1969)

1970s-1980s

* San Michele aveva un gallo (1972)
* Allonsanfàn (1973)
* Padre padrone (1977)
* Il prato (1979)
* La notte di San Lorenzo (1982)
* Kaos (1984)
* Good Morning, Babylon (1987)

1990s

* Il sole anche di notte (1990)
* Fiorile (1993)
* Le affinità elettive (1996)
* Tu ridi (1998)

2000s

* Un altro mondo è possibile (2001)
* Resurrezione (2001, TV film)
* Luisa Sanfelice (2004, TV miniseries)
* La masseria delle allodole (2007)

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