<p class="title">Illustrious Italian director Vittorio Taviani has died. He was 88.</p>.<p class="bodytext">One-half of the duo Taviani brothers (with Paolo), Vittorio passed away after a long illness, his daughter said, BBC reported.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The filmmaker would be cremated in a private ceremony.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The director duo became household names in Italy in the 1960s.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The older of the two brothers, Vittorio, was a law student at the University of Pisa, but dropped out after he became inclined towards cinema.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Before directing "A Man for Burning", their first feature in 1962 with Valentino Orsini, the Taviani brothers also wrote and directed short films. The duo also served as screenwriters.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Always working in partnership, the brothers took turns to direct alternate scenes in their films, with the other watching.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Italian actor Marcello Mastroianni had given a portmanteau "Paolovittorio" to them.</p>.<p class="bodytext">They produced their final film together - "Rainbow: A Private Affair" last year.</p>.<p class="bodytext">In 1977, their movie "Padre Padrone" won the Palme D'Or in Cannes.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Their docudrama "Caesar Must Die" was honoured with the Golden Bear prize at the Berlin Film Festival in 2012. Both penned the script and Paolo directed the film.</p>.<p class="bodytext">According to the Repubblica newspaper, the Taviani brothers were regarded as the master filmmakers of Italian cinema, who narrated the history, reality and contradictions of Italy since the 1960s.</p>
<p class="title">Illustrious Italian director Vittorio Taviani has died. He was 88.</p>.<p class="bodytext">One-half of the duo Taviani brothers (with Paolo), Vittorio passed away after a long illness, his daughter said, BBC reported.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The filmmaker would be cremated in a private ceremony.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The director duo became household names in Italy in the 1960s.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The older of the two brothers, Vittorio, was a law student at the University of Pisa, but dropped out after he became inclined towards cinema.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Before directing "A Man for Burning", their first feature in 1962 with Valentino Orsini, the Taviani brothers also wrote and directed short films. The duo also served as screenwriters.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Always working in partnership, the brothers took turns to direct alternate scenes in their films, with the other watching.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Italian actor Marcello Mastroianni had given a portmanteau "Paolovittorio" to them.</p>.<p class="bodytext">They produced their final film together - "Rainbow: A Private Affair" last year.</p>.<p class="bodytext">In 1977, their movie "Padre Padrone" won the Palme D'Or in Cannes.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Their docudrama "Caesar Must Die" was honoured with the Golden Bear prize at the Berlin Film Festival in 2012. Both penned the script and Paolo directed the film.</p>.<p class="bodytext">According to the Repubblica newspaper, the Taviani brothers were regarded as the master filmmakers of Italian cinema, who narrated the history, reality and contradictions of Italy since the 1960s.</p>