10 January 2015 :
Italian director and screenwriter Francesco Rosi, whose films took on corruption in postwar Italy, winning top honors at the Venice and Cannes film festivals, has died. He was 92.
He was also honored in 2012 with a Golden Lion for lifetime achievement for having left “an indelible mark on the history of Italian filmmaking.”
Rosi’s most famous works include “Hands over the City,” a film about political corruption that won the Golden Lion at Venice in 1963, and “The Mattei Affair,” which dealt with the mysterious death of an oil tycoon. It won the Golden Palm at Cannes in 1972.
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