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Francesco Rosi
Francesco Rosi was an Italian film director and screenwriter. His film The Mattei Affair won the Palme d'Or at the 1972 Cannes Film Festival. Rosi's films, especially those of the 1960s and 1970s, often appeared to have political messages, while the topics of his later films became less politically oriented and more angled toward literature. He made his debut with his first self-directed film in 1…
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culture · Italian film director · film director · screenwriter · journalist · director · theatre director · also Francesco Rosi, Rosi
Born 15 November 1922 · Died 10 January 2015 · Q53050
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2026· 1 entry
2025· 2 entries
Il Mattino: Ercolano, si conclude la rassegna "I grandi anniversari" con l'omaggio al regista Francesco Rosi
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Il Messaggero: Roma il cinema Italiano omaggia Francesco Rosi
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2015· 2 entries
affaritaliani: E’ morto Francesco Rosi, inventò il cinema-inchiesta
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Died 2015-01-10.
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2014· 1 entry
Took part in the film Born in the USE, co-produced by Renzo Rossellini and directed by Michele Dioma
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2013· 1 entry
In the presence of the Italian Minister of Cultural Heritage Massimo Bra, he was given the honorary citizenship of Matera, where he had shot three of his films
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2012· 2 entries
Won Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement (2012).
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The Venice Biennale awarded Rosi the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement
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2009· 1 entry
Was awarded the Cavaliere della Legion d'Onore, in 2010 the "Golden Halberd" at the Trieste Film Festival and in May 2012 the Board of the Venice Biennale unanimously approved the proposal of its director Alberto Barb
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2008· 4 entries
Won Honorary Golden Bear (2008).
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13 of his films were screened at the Berlin International Film Festival
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His 1963 film Hands over the City was included on the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage's 100 Italian films to be saved, a list of 100 films that "have changed the collective memory of the country between 1942 and 19
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Played tribute to Rosi by screening 13 films in its Homage section, a feature being reserved for film-makers of outstanding quality and achievement
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2002· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne (2002).
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1997· 1 entry
Awarded David di Donatello for Best Director for The Truce (1997).
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1990· 1 entry
Directed The Palermo Connection ("Dimenticare Palermo") with Jim Belushi, Mimi Rogers, Vittorio Gassman, Philippe Noiret and Giancarlo Giannini
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1985· 1 entry
Awarded David di Donatello for Best Director for Carmen (1985).
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1983· 1 entry
Awarded BAFTA Award for Best Film for Christ Stopped at Eboli (1983).
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1981· 1 entry
Awarded David di Donatello for Best Director for Three Brothers (1981).
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1979· 2 entries
Awarded David di Donatello for Best Director for Christ Stopped at Eboli (1979).
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Rosi directed Christ Stopped at Eboli, based on the memoir of the same name by Carlo Levi, again with Volonté as the protagonist
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1976· 2 entries
Awarded David di Donatello for Best Director for Illustrious Corpses (1976).
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Followed Illustrious Corpses ("Cadaveri eccellenti"), based on the novel Equal Danger by Leonardo Sciascia, with Lino Ventura
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1972· 1 entry
Awarded Palme d'Or for The Mattei Affair (1972).
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1965· 1 entry
Awarded David di Donatello for Best Director for The Moment of Truth (1965).
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1963· 3 entries
Won Golden Lion for Hands Over the City (1963).
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Awarded Nastro d'Argento for the director of the best film (1963).
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Directed Rod Steiger in the film Hands over the City ("Le mani sulla città"), in which he denounced the collusion between the various government departments and the urban reconstruction programmes in Naples
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1962· 1 entry
Earned Silver Bear for Best Director for Salvatore Giuliano (1962).
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1958· 2 entries
Awarded Grand Jury Prize of the Venice Film Festival for La sfida (1958).
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And continued to direct until 1997, his last film being the adaptation of Primo Levi's book, The Truce
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1956· 1 entry
Co-directed, with Vittorio Gassman, the film Kean – Genio e sregolatezza ("Kean – Genius and recklessness"), about the Shakespearean actor Edmund Kean
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1946· 1 entry
As an assistant to Ettore Giannini for the stage production of a work by Salvatore Di Giacomo
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1922· 1 entry
Born 1922-11-15.
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