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Italian film-maker Paolo Taviani, whose film Padre Padrone won top prize at Cannes and the Golden Bear in Berlin for Caesar Must Die, has died aged 92, Rome’s mayor, Roberto Gualtieri announced. For more than three decades Taviani and his brother Vittorio formed one of cinema’s greatest directorial duos. “Paolo Taviani, a great maestro of Italian cinema, leaves us,” Gualtieri said on X. The brothers “directed unforgettable, profound, committed films which entered into the collective imagination and the history of cinema”, Gualtieri added. Taviani died in a clinic in Rome after suffering from a…

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