About

Known credits:
30
Birthday:
1922-03-01
Place of birth:
Vittorio Veneto, Veneto, Italy
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Giuseppe Taffarel

Overview

Giuseppe Taffarel was born in Vittorio Veneto (TV) on March 1, 1922, where he died on April 9, 2012, shortly after celebrating his ninetieth birthday.

From an early age he showed an innate passion for theater. He was self-taught and read plays with predilection. At the age of 19 he arrived in Rome where he attended the Academy of Dramatic Arts directed by Silvio D'Amico. In 1943 he enlisted in the partisan resistance fought in the Belluno-Treviso Prealps. He distinguished himself for his courage in numerous war actions.

In 1946 he returned to Rome, in the golden age of neorealism, frequenting the world of cinema that he found at the Menghi Brothers' trattoria and at the Rosati bar. In the capital, while participating in the writing of numerous screenplays, he began a career as a film actor that saw him act in about twenty films including Achtung! Banditi! by Carlo Lizzani (1951) with Gina Lollobrigida and Giuliano Montaldo. At the end of the 1940s he collaborated with Glauco Pellegrini and Rodolfo Sonego on the making of some documentaries (the most famous are Parliamo del naso, Lezioni di anatomia and L’esperienza del cubismo) and was assistant director on Ceramiche Umbre by Glauco Pellegrini (1949), the first experimental color documentary by Ferraniacolor produced by Lux Film. In 1960 – after having theorized on the birth of the “new documentary cinema” with Michelangelo Antonioni and his friend Vittorio De Seta – he directed his first film La croce shot in Vittorio Veneto and its surroundings.

From then until the beginning of the 1980s, he made over three hundred documentaries on different themes and genres: from paleontology to contemporary history, from natural sciences to Italian customs up to the representation of cities and landscapes where the history of art and anthropology are always highlighted. In all of Taffarel’s works, the anthropological/ethnographic gaze flows into the aesthetics of the image, culminating in moments of absolute lyricism and rare audiovisual poetics. The Venetian author’s ability to observe life, grasping the threads that connect the small history of the common man to the great history of humanity, is recognizable in about twenty short films in neorealist style.

These documentaries can be considered small pearls in the history of cinema, like the recently restored and digitalized Fazzoletti di terra (1962), L’alpino della Settima (1969) and Via Crucis (1972).

Known for

Acting
1954 Di qua, di là del Piave Actor N/A
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1951 Attention! Bandits! Actor Vento 59
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1950 Il sentiero dell'odio Actor Bastiano N/A
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Directing
1972 Via Crucis Directing Director N/A
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1970 La maratona delle nevi Directing Director N/A
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1969 Voci Directing Director N/A
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1969 Legna da ardere Directing Director N/A
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1969 Un alpino della settima Directing Director N/A
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1968 Laguna Directing Director N/A
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1968 Vittorio Veneto: Città nella storia Directing Director N/A
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1968 La resistenza nel Trevigiano Directing Director N/A
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1967 Il confino di Cesare Pavese Directing Director N/A
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1967 Il contadino che viene dal mare Directing Director N/A
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1967 Uccellagione tradizione antica Directing Director N/A
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1967 Caccia col capanno Directing Director N/A
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1967 Paese mio covo de' corcali Directing Director N/A
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1966 Un giorno alla settimana Directing Director N/A
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1966 Surf Casting Directing Director N/A
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1966 Solitudine Directing Director N/A
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1966 Monte Grappa 1944 Directing Director N/A
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1966 La montagna del sole Directing Director N/A
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1964 Riviera Mediterraneo est Directing Director N/A
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1964 Impressioni libanesi Directing Director N/A
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1963 Fazzoletti di terra Directing Director N/A
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1962 Le nerte Directing Director N/A
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1960 Sesto Grado Superiore Directing Director 58
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1960 Uccellanda Directing Director N/A
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1960 La croce Directing Director N/A
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Writing
1961 The Seven Revenges Writing Screenplay 58
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1959 Goliath and the Barbarians Writing Screenplay 58
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