Giuseppe Taffarel

Giuseppe Taffarel

Giuseppe Taffarel was born in Vittorio Veneto, in the province of Treviso, on 1 March 1922. He died in the same town on 9 April 2012, shortly after celebrating his ninetieth birthday. From his childhood he always had a passion for the theater. He was self-taught and mostly read theatrical works. At the age of 19 he went to Rome, where he attended the Accademia d'Arte Drammatica, headed by Silvio D'Amico. In 1943 he joined the partisan resistance, fighting in the foothills of Belluno and Treviso. He distinguished himself for his courage in numerous wartime missions. In 1946 he returned to Rome, in the golden era of Neorealism, frequenting the world of film, whose protagonists often met up at the restaurant of the Menghi brothers and the Rosati bar. In Rome, while participating in the writing of numerous screenplays, he also began a career as a movie actor, taking part in around twenty films, including Achtung! Banditi! by Carlo Lizzani (1951) with Gina Lollobrigida and Giuliano Montaldo. At the end of the 1940s he worked with Glauco Pellegrini and Rodolfo Sonego in the making of a number of documentaries (the most well-known are Parliamo del naso, Lezioni di anatomia and L'esperienza del cubismo) and was assistant director for Ceramiche Umbre by Glauco Pellegrini (1949), the first experimental documentary in color made by Ferraniacolor and produced by Lux Film. In 1960, after having reflected on the birth of "new documentary film" with Michelangelo Antonioni and his friend and peer Vittorio De Seta, he directed his first film La croce, filmed in Vittorio Veneto and the surrounding area. From this period until the beginning of the 1980s he made more than three hundred documentaries of different kinds on different themes: from paleontology and contemporary history to natural science, Italian customs and portrayals of cities and landscapes, in which the history of art and anthropology are always highlighted. In all Taffarel's works an anthropological/ethnographic approach combines with the aesthetics of the imagery, culminating in lyrical works of rare audiovisual poeticism. The ability of the filmmaker from Veneto to observe life, drawing together all the threads linking the lesser story of the common man with the greater history of humanity, can be seen in around twenty short films in neorealist style. These documentaries can be considered as small gems in the history of film, such as the recently restored and digitalized Fazzoletti di terra (1962), L'alpino della Settima (1969) and Via Crucis (1972).

  • Title: Giuseppe Taffarel
  • Popularity: 0.603
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1922-03-01
  • Place of Birth: Vittorio Veneto, Veneto, Italy
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Giuseppe Taffarel Movies

  • 1950
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    Il sentiero dell'odio

    Il sentiero dell'odio

    1 1950 HD

    A love story along the lines of Romeo and Juliet, set in Calabria: two young lovers belong to two families who have always been enemies of each other.

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  • 1951
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    Attention! Bandits!

    Attention! Bandits!

    6 1951 HD

    During the winter of 1944, the partisans stationed in the Ligurian Apennines must go to a factory in Genoa, in order to pick up a delivery of...

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  • 1954
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    Di qua, di là del Piave

    Di qua, di là del Piave

    1 1954 HD

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  • 1959
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    Goliath and the Barbarians

    Goliath and the Barbarians

    4.773 1959 HD

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  • 1963
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    Fazzoletti di terra

    Fazzoletti di terra

    1 1963 HD

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  • 1969
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    Un alpino della settima

    Un alpino della settima

    1 1969 HD

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  • 1966
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    La montagna del sole

    La montagna del sole

    1 1966 HD

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  • 1960
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    La croce

    La croce

    1 1960 HD

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  • 1961
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    The Seven Revenges

    The Seven Revenges

    6.8 1961 HD

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  • 1972
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    Via Crucis

    Via Crucis

    1 1972 HD

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  • 1969
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    Voci

    Voci

    1 1969 HD

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  • 1968
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    Laguna

    Laguna

    1 1968 HD

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  • 1970
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    La maratona delle nevi

    La maratona delle nevi

    1 1970 HD

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  • 1966
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    Surf Casting

    Surf Casting

    1 1966 HD

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  • 1966
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    Monte Grappa 1944

    Monte Grappa 1944

    1 1966 HD

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  • 1967
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    Uccellagione tradizione antica

    Uccellagione tradizione antica

    1 1967 HD

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  • 1967
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    Il confino di Cesare Pavese

    Il confino di Cesare Pavese

    1 1967 HD

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  • 1967
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    Il contadino che viene dal mare

    Il contadino che viene dal mare

    1 1967 HD

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  • 1966
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    Solitudine

    Solitudine

    1 1966 HD

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  • 1969
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    Legna da ardere

    Legna da ardere

    1 1969 HD

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  • 1966
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    Un giorno alla settimana

    Un giorno alla settimana

    1 1966 HD

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  • 1960
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    Uccellanda

    Uccellanda

    1 1960 HD

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  • 1960
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    Sesto grado superiore

    Sesto grado superiore

    1 1960 HD

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  • 1962
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    Le nerte

    Le nerte

    1 1962 HD

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  • 1964
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    Impressioni libanesi

    Impressioni libanesi

    1 1964 HD

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  • 1964
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    Riviera Mediterraneo est

    Riviera Mediterraneo est

    1 1964 HD

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  • 1967
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    Caccia col capanno

    Caccia col capanno

    1 1967 HD

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  • 1967
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    Paese mio covo de' corcali

    Paese mio covo de' corcali

    1 1967 HD

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  • 1968
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    La resistenza nel Trevigiano

    La resistenza nel Trevigiano

    1 1968 HD

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  • 1968
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    Vittorio Veneto: Città nella storia

    Vittorio Veneto: Città nella storia

    1 1968 HD

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