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Filmmaker · Italy

Giuseppe Bertolucci

Died in 2012

Giuseppe Bertolucci was born in Parma on 27 February 1947, the son of the poet Attilio Bertolucci and the younger brother of the filmmaker Bernardo. He was his brother's assistant, then co-wrote a screenplay with him in the mid-1970s. He wrote a theatre monologue for Roberto Benigni, which he brought to the screen in 1977: it was the actor's first film role. He directed the Cineteca di Bologna for many years and died in the province of Lecce on 16 June 2012.

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