Francesco Rosi

Francesco Rosi 15 November 1922 10 January 2015 was an Italian film director His film The Mattei Affair won the Palme dOr at the 1972 Cannes Film Festival Rosis films especially those of the 1960s and 1970s often appeared to have political messages While the topics for his later films became less politically oriented and more angled toward literature he continued to direct until 1997 his last film being the Primo Levi book adaptation The Truce Description above from the Wikipedia article Francesco Rosi licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia