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 Nostos : The Return in 1989 , a film inspired by Ulysses ' return to Ithica in the Odyssey , and contains only sparse dialogue that imitates " sounds of ancient Mediterranean languages "
39th Venice International Film Festival
39th Venice International Film Festival
Franco Piavoli