Born in Naples in 1922 and died in Rome in 2015, Francesco Rosi worked as an assistant to Visconti before directing his own films. He built a form of investigative cinema in which a story is reconstructed from documents, witnesses and contradictory accounts, probing the links between power, crime and politics in Italy. Salvatore Giuliano (1962) became a model for political filmmaking. The Mattei Affair (1972) won the Palme d'Or at Cannes, shared with The Working Class Goes to Heaven.
Filmography
- Salvatore Giuliano (1962)
- Hands Over the City (1963)
- The Moment of Truth (1965)
- The Mattei Affair (1972)
- Illustrious Corpses (1976)
- Christ Stopped at Eboli (1979)
- Three Brothers (1981)
- Carmen (1984) (1984)
- Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1987)
- The Truce (1997)