14 Facts About Liliana Cavani

Liliana Cavani was born on 12 January 1933 and is an Italian film director and screenwriter.

Liliana Cavani was born in Carpi, near Modena in the regione of Emilia-Romagna.

Liliana Cavani had worked in urban planning in Baghdad in 1956, when Iraq was still under British control.

Liliana Cavani's mother was passionate about films and took her to the movies every Sunday from an early age.

On her mother's side, Liliana Cavani came from a working-class family of militant antifascists.

Liliana Cavani graduated in literature and philology at Bologna University in 1959, writing a dissertation on the fifteenth-century poet and nobleman Marsilio Pio.

Liliana Cavani had intended to become an archeologist, a profession she soon abandoned in order to pursue her passion for the moving image.

Liliana Cavani studied documentary filmmaking and obtained her diploma with the short films Incontro notturno, about the friendship between two men, a white man and a Senegalese, and L'evento about a group of tourists who killed for fun.

Liliana Cavani made her first non-fiction feature film in 1966 with Francesco di Assisi.

Liliana Cavani was not well known beyond Italy until she made the 1974 film The Night Porter, which remains the film for which she is best remembered.

Liliana Cavani returned to her television roots and directed three TV opera production: Verdi's La Traviata, Cavalleria rusticana on Pietro Mascagni and Puccini's Manon Lescaut.

Liliana Cavani belongs to a wealthy family who has raised him as if he were not deaf, while she comes from a more humble working-class family and has to struggle to complete her education.

In 2002, Liliana Cavani made Ripley's Game, based on the novel of the same name by Patricia Highsmith, a sequel to The Talented Mr Ripley.

The Order of Time is first feature film in over 20 years by Liliana Cavani, who was 89 years old at the time of the film's production.