The recent death of Paolo Taviani, six years after his brother Vittorio, leaves behind a canon of work which enriched world cinema. Join us at BFI Southbank or online to explore more...

Marcello Mastroianni is the revolutionary changed by age and experience into a more venal and cowardly man, in the brothers’ classic drama set during the Risorgimento. The grand visuals, lavish costumes and high ideals give it the feel of opera, which Ennio Morricone's score - later used by Tarantino in Inglourious Basterds - underwrites with force.

The funeral of a Communist leader brings together four people at a crossroads in their own lives. Short sequences and long montages show the directors' growing skill and their instinctive belief in the power of cinema to unite the personal and the political in meaningful expression.

A union man tries to rally the workers and confront the Sicilian mafia in an ever-resonant story, their first narrative feature (made with Valentino Orsini). Roberto Rossellini is an influence, and there's a strong sympathy with the working people and their land, built around a notably and impressively imperfect hero.