Giuseppe Taffarel

Directing·Mar 1, 1922·Vittorio Veneto, Veneto, Italy

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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).

Film	Credit
Via Crucis1972 · Director	Director
LLa maratona delle nevi1970 · Director	Director
Legna da ardere1969 · Director	Director
Voci1969 · Director	Director
Un alpino della settima1969 · Director	Director
Laguna1968 · Director	Director
La resistenza nel Trevigiano1968 · Director	Director
Vittorio Veneto: Città nella storia1968 · Director	Director
Uccellagione tradizione antica1967 · Director	Director
Il contadino che viene dal mare1967 · Director	Director
Il confino di Cesare Pavese1967 · Director	Director
Caccia col capanno1967 · Director	Director
Paese mio covo de' corcali1967 · Director	Director
Un giorno alla settimana1966 · Director	Director
Monte Grappa 19441966 · Director	Director
Surf Casting1966 · Director	Director
Solitudine1966 · Director	Director
La montagna del sole1966 · Director	Director
Impressioni libanesi1964 · Director	Director
Riviera Mediterraneo est1964 · Director	Director
Fazzoletti di terra1963 · Director	Director
Le nerte1962 · Director	Director
The Seven Revenges1961 · Screenplay	Screenplay
La croce1960 · Director	Director
Uccellanda1960 · Director	Director
Sesto Grado Superiore1960 · Director	Director
Goliath and the Barbarians1959 · Screenplay	Screenplay
Di qua, di là del Piave1954 · Actor	Actor
Attention! Bandits!1951 · Vento	Vento
IIl sentiero dell'odio1950 · Bastiano	Bastiano