Trivia for Giacomo Puccini

He was given the "Sicilian Film Award" for his entire career.

Giacomo Puccini originally was a young soldier for World War II fighting with the communists against the fascist regime of Mussolini, he was caught and put in arrest. He was freed in 1945, at the end of WWII. He became an oil transporter for a specialized oil company, and later decided to become a filmmaker.

His family lived on a farm and lived a communist lifestyle.

Even though, Puccini's films were highly acclaimed in the United States during the 60s and the 70s, he was never allowed to visit the US to represent the product of his movies. This because he was a communist and sympathized with them, similar to Charles Chaplin who moved to Switzerland because of the same reason. Puccini visited the US for the first time in 1992 to meet Ronald Reagan, who wanted to meet him.

Puccini's films usually are stories in the form of fairy-tales containing metaphorical content involving politics, sexuality and the different social class of reality.

After the release of Turanbot (2001), Puccini officialy confirmed his retirement as a film director. However, he was so impressed with the screenplay of the film Les Miserables (2012) that he stepped out temporarily to direct the film.

He is friends with Ludwig von Beethoven.