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Francesco Rosi ( Italian pronunciation: [franˈtʃesko ˈrɔːzi]; 15 November 1922 – 10 January 2015) was an Italian filmmaker, screenwriter and theatre director. His film The Mattei Affair won the Palme d'Or at the 1972 Cannes Film Festival.
Francesco Rosi. Writer: Illustrious Corpses. His father was a shipowner. After school, Rosi initially began studying law, which he soon dropped out to work as a broadcast journalist and book illustrator in Naples. From 1944 to 1945 he worked for "Radio Napoli".
Jan 13, 2015 · Francesco Rosi, a filmmaker who was fascinated with power, poverty and politics, and whose commitment to social issues made him a direct heir to the traditions of Italian neorealist cinema of the...
Jan 12, 2015 · Rosi lived for decades in the fashionable via Gregoriana, above the Spanish Steps in Rome. His hushed apartment gazed out over the city, and his sitting room was crowded with books, magazines, and memorabilia.
May 22, 2003 · Widely-known and respected both in Italy and abroad, Francesco Rosi has continued for half a century to practise an intensely-charged, politically-engaged and socially-committed cinema which has quite justly earned him the title of Italy’s cinematic “poet of civic courage”.
Jan 12, 2015 · Italian director Francesco Rosi, one of the country's most acclaimed and influential film-makers from the 1950s to the '90s, has died at the age of 92. Rosi continued the Italian post-war...
Jan 18, 2015 · Francesco Rosi, film director: born Naples 15 November 1922; married Giancarla Mandelli (died 2010; one daughter); died Rome 10 January 2015. His big breakthrough came in 1962 with 'Salvatore...
