Movies like “last Tango in Paris”, “1900” and “The last Emperor” were often Controversial, made him world-famous. Now, the Italian auteur Bernardo Bertolucci in Rome, has died.
At the age of 77 years, Bernardo Bertolucci was dead in the Morning in his house in Rome, said a spokeswoman for his Agency. The prominent film-makers have suffered from cancer. The two-time Oscar winner sat for years after a failed spinal disc surgery in a wheelchair. Bertolucci was regarded as the last representative of the Generation of film-makers, made in the 1960s and 1970s, the Italian author film world-famous. For his life’s work he was awarded, among others, of the film festival in Cannes and Venice.
16. March 1941 was born Bertolucci, the son of poet Attilio Bertolucci in Parma and later went to the film Director Pier Paolo Pasolini in the teaching. In his Film “Pasolini’s art production” he then worked as an assistant Director. A few years later, he participated in the screenplay for the Western classic “game me the song of death” by Sergio Leone.
Marlon Brando and Maria Schneider in a scene from “last Tango in Paris”
Breakthrough with Brando-strip
Gained international recognition Bertolucci with the ways of violent sex scenes in the controversial Film “last Tango in Paris” with Marlon Brando, 1972. After 1987 were the last of the censorship bans, the Film became a box-office hit. With the two-parter “of 1900,” Bertolucci in 1976, a large-scale fresco of Italian history in the first half of the century, with an all-star cast with Robert De Niro, Gérard Depardieu and Burt Lancaster.
In 1987, Bertolucci celebrated his biggest success. “The last Emperor” walked with nine Oscars and four Golden Globes in the history of cinema. In the Film, it’s about the life of the last Chinese Emperor, who already came in as a three year old to the Power of the subjects as a God was worshipped and “as a prisoner of his own Power and lived”. The film artists could then rotate as the first Western Director at the original locations in Beijing.
The little Pu Yi in the Emperor’s Palace in Beijing in the cinema epic “The last Emperor”
Last movie six years ago
In his later work of the film Director focused, as in “the sheltering sky” (1990) and “Little Buddha” (1993) on distant cultures. After a ten-year directing break, Bertolucci returned in 2012 with “I and you” in the cinemas.
He will remain as one of the Largest of the Italian and international Films in memory, declared the International Venice film festival on Twitter. The Italian newspaper “La Repubblica called” Bertolucci “the last master of the Italian movie”, which was not only a Director, but also a Poet, producer, polemicist and a brilliant author.
kle/sti (epd, dpa, afp, kna)