Francesco Rosi

Francesco Rosi was born in Naples in 1922. He studied law, worked for the radio in Naples at the end of the war, then for the theatre in Rome, and in 1948 joined the team of Luchino Visconti, whose assistant he became. He directed his first film in 1958 and devoted himself above all to a cinema of inquiry into power, the mafia and political corruption. He received a Golden Lion for his career as a whole in 2012 and died in Rome in 2015.

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• CinemaHands over the CityLe mani sulla cittàFrancesco Rosi · 1963Cinema