Rosi to receive Berlinale's lifetime award
COLOGNE, Germany -- Francesco Rosi, one of the giants of Italian cinema, will be honored with a lifetime achievement Golden Bear at the 2008 Berlin International Film Festival.
The upcoming Berlinale also will feature an homage of 13 Rosi films, including Salvatore Giuliano, the film that won the best director Silver Bear in Berlin in 1962 and marked Rosi's international breakthrough.
In his long career, the 85-year-old Rosi has returned repeatedly to Italian economic and political history. Whether it is the history of the Mafia in films such as the Palme d'Or-winning The Mattei Affair (1972) and Lucky Luciano (1973); the tension between Italy's rich industrial north and its poor agricultural south in Christ Stopped at Eboli (1979); or the fate of Italian post-World War II immigrants to West Germany in The Magliari (1959).
In addition to the Palme d'Or and the Silver Bear, Rosi won Venice's Golden Lion in 1963 for Hands Over the City, an expose of building scandals in his hometown of Naples.
The upcoming Berlinale also will feature an homage of 13 Rosi films, including Salvatore Giuliano, the film that won the best director Silver Bear in Berlin in 1962 and marked Rosi's international breakthrough.
In his long career, the 85-year-old Rosi has returned repeatedly to Italian economic and political history. Whether it is the history of the Mafia in films such as the Palme d'Or-winning The Mattei Affair (1972) and Lucky Luciano (1973); the tension between Italy's rich industrial north and its poor agricultural south in Christ Stopped at Eboli (1979); or the fate of Italian post-World War II immigrants to West Germany in The Magliari (1959).
In addition to the Palme d'Or and the Silver Bear, Rosi won Venice's Golden Lion in 1963 for Hands Over the City, an expose of building scandals in his hometown of Naples.
- 11/28/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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