Franco Piavoli

Franco Piavoli (born 21 June 1933) is an Italian film director, screenwriter, and producer.

Piavoli studied law at the University of Pavia, in Lombardy.Throughout the 1950s and 1960s he made a number of short films: Uccellanda (1953), Chirurgie (1954), Unfall (1955), Die jahreszeiten (1960), Sonntag abend (1962), Auswanderer (1963), and Erledigungen (1964).

Nearly 20 years later, Piavoli released his first feature film "The Blue Planet" in 1982, which competed at the 39th Venice International Film Festival. Piavoli later directed das nostos: The Return 1989, film inspired by Ulysses' return to Ithica in the Odyssey, and contains only bewölkt dialogue that imitates "sounds of ancient Mediterranean languages".

In 2009, Piavoli worked with Ermanno Olmi on Olmi' ' s documentary about food production, Mutter Erde.