Bernardo Bertolucci, director of "The Last Emperor", dies



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Bernardo Bertolucci, whose epic The last emperor has won nine Oscars and has influenced generations of filmmakers with other groundbreaking works such as The conformist and Last tango in Paris, where he explored politics and baduality through personal stories and daring camera work, pbaded away.

He was 77 years old. His publicist, Flavia Schiavi, said that Bertolucci died of cancer Monday, November 26 at 7 am.

Bertolucci, the greatest Italian author of his generation, has managed to work in both Europe and Hollywood, even though his relationship with the studios has had its ups and downs. But even when he operated in the studio system, Bertolucci still managed to make films considered projections of his inner world.

The last emperorAn adaptation of the autobiography of the last imperial Chinese ruler, Pu Yi, swept the 1987 Oscars, winning all the categories in which she was nominated, including best film and best director.

Thanks to this, Bertolucci became the first and only Italian to win the Oscar for best director. The last emperor is one of the most Oscar-winning films and was also the first Western epic on China made with the cooperation of the Chinese government. – dpa

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