Italian director and screenwriter. His show business career began in 1946 as an assistant to Ettore Giannini for the stage production of a work by Salvatore Di Giacomo. He then entered the film industry and worked as an assistant to Luchino Visconti on "La Terra Trema" (1948), and "Senso" (1953). His emergence as a director is considered to be his 1958 film "La sfida". Rosi was one of the central figures of the politicised post-neorealist 1960s and 1970s of Italian cinema, with "Salvatore Giuliano" (1962), "Le mani sulla città" (1963), "Uomini contro" (1970), "Lucky Luciano" (1974). His last film as director was "La tregua" (1977), based on holocaust survivor Levi’s memoir. At the 2008 Berlin International Film Festival 13 of his films were screened, in a section reserved for film-makers of outstanding quality and achievement. He received the Honorary Golden Bear for Lifetime Achievement, accompanied by the screening of his 1962 film Salvatore Giuliano. In 2012 the Venice Biennale awarded Rosi the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement. He died at the age of 92.∼Italian film director, responsible for films like Salvatore Giuliano (1962), Hands Over the City (1963), The Mattei Affair (1972), Lucky Luciano (1974), Cadaveri eccellenti (1976), Christ Stopped at Eboli (1979), Three Brothers (1981), Carmen (1984), Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1987), Dimenticare Palermo (1989), Neapolitan Diary (1992), The Truce (1997)
Italian director and screenwriter. His show business career began in 1946 as an assistant to Ettore Giannini for the stage production of a work by Salvatore Di Giacomo. He then entered the film industry and worked as an assistant to Luchino Visconti on "La Terra Trema" (1948), and "Senso" (1953). His emergence as a director is considered to be his 1958 film "La sfida". Rosi was one of the central figures of the politicised post-neorealist 1960s and 1970s of Italian cinema, with "Salvatore Giuliano" (1962), "Le mani sulla città" (1963), "Uomini contro" (1970), "Lucky Luciano" (1974). His last film as director was "La tregua" (1977), based on holocaust survivor Levi’s memoir. At the 2008 Berlin International Film Festival 13 of his films were screened, in a section reserved for film-makers of outstanding quality and achievement. He received the Honorary Golden Bear for Lifetime Achievement, accompanied by the screening of his 1962 film Salvatore Giuliano. In 2012 the Venice Biennale awarded Rosi the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement. He died at the age of 92.∼Italian film director, responsible for films like Salvatore Giuliano (1962), Hands Over the City (1963), The Mattei Affair (1972), Lucky Luciano (1974), Cadaveri eccellenti (1976), Christ Stopped at Eboli (1979), Three Brothers (1981), Carmen (1984), Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1987), Dimenticare Palermo (1989), Neapolitan Diary (1992), The Truce (1997)
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