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Directed and Written by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani...
...army did he discover the pleasures of literacy, industrialized civilization and social intercourse. In Padre Padrone (English title: My Father, My Master), we see how Ledda overcame his punishing childhood and the cultural heritage of centuries to seize a life of intellectual endeavor. To their credit, Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, the brothers who directed the film, do not sentimentalize material that could easily collapse into bathos...
...bandits, but they know that they will need outside help to do it. The Italian government has dragged its feet even on appointing a commission that was approved by the Chamber of Deputies in Rome last November to look into the causes of banditry. Italian Interior Minister Paolo Taviani, who paid a hurried visit to the island this month, reported that the only cure for banditry is "massive industrialization" and "a radical transformation of the island's pastoral mentality." If that is so, it may take the Sardinians at least another generation to rid their island of the terror...
With a bit of overstatement, Defense Minister Paolo Emilio Taviani exclaimed: "We have had a real revolution here!" It was not a revolution, for there had been no violent upsets in the party centers of power; it was rather an overhauling, a rejuvenation. Trends and processes that had been going on for months came to fruition at Naples. There was. undeniably, some moaning over past mistakes, but the unifying theme was: How can democracy in Italy be strengthened, how can Communism be thwarted...