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  1. Golden Lion (2012, career) Francesco Rosi (Italian pronunciation: [franˈtʃesko ˈrɔːzi]; 15 November 1922 – 10 January 2015) was an Italian filmmaker, screenwriter and theatre director. His film The Mattei Affair won the Palme d'Or at the 1972 Cannes Film Festival. Rosi's films, especially those of the 1960s and 1970s, often appeared to ...

  2. Jan 10, 2015 · MILAN (AP) — 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. Rosi's most famous works include "Hands over the City," a film about political corruption that won the won the Golden Lion at Venice in 1963, and "The Mattei Affair," which dealt with the mysterious ...

  3. Jan 10, 2015 · Recalling the life of the Italian director, who has died at 92. by Richard Mowe. Salvatore Giuliano won Rosi a Silver Bear at Berlin Film Festival. The great Italian director Francesco Rosi, who has died aged 92, had a remarkable career of films that dissected the political and criminal corruption that was endemic in Italian society.

  4. Jan 10, 2015 · ROME -- Italian director Francesco Rosi, known for socially engaged investigative dramas, including 1972 Palme d’Or winner “The Mattei Affair,” and for his depiction of the complex roots of ...

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  5. Jan 10, 2015 · Francesco Rosi, an Italian director whose gritty films offered a socially charged look into the country's underworld of crime and corruption, died on Saturday at age 92, officials said.

  6. Jan 14, 2015 · Francesco Rosi, an Italian director and screenwriter whose films took on corruption in postwar Italy, winning top honors at the Venice and Cannes film festivals, died Jan. 10 in Rome.

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  8. Jan 18, 2015 · So read the unusual disclaimer opening the 1963 film Hands Over the City by the Italian director Francesco Rosi. It cherishes and illustrates the very essence of Rosi’s cinema, a fictional ...