Liliana Cavani



7.0 Il Portiere di Notte (1974)
5.0 Ripley's Game
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Liliana Cavani (Italy, 1933) debuted with the television movies Francesco d'Assisi (1966) and Galileo (1968), and the the political allegory I Cannibali (1970), which is loosely based on Sophocles' "Antigone". After L’Ospite/ The Guest (1971) and the Tibetan biopic Milarepa (1973), she directed her main work, Il Portiere di Notte/ The Night Porter (1974) After Al di la` del Bene e del Male/ Beyond Good and Evil (1977), La Pelle/ The Skin (1981), which is an adaptation of Curzio Malaparte's novel, Oltre la Porta/ Beyond the Door (1982), she made Interno Berlinese/ The Berlin Affair (1985), based on Junichiro Tanizaki's novel "Quicksand".

She became mainly a director of operas. She still directed the films Francesco (1989), Dove Siete? Io Sono qui/ Where Are You? I'm Here (1993) and Il Gioco di Ripley/ Ripley's Game (2002), an adaptation of the Patricia Highsmith novel.

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