Rome bids farewell to director Bertolucci

Rome bids farewell to Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci, who pbaded away yesterday. Hundreds of people went on a pilgrimage to the casket in a room of the Roman city hall on Capitol Hill.

As "Grandmaster who wrote the history of cinema", the head of the Italian state, Sergio Mattarella, paid tribute to the deceased director of cancer. With a total of nine Oscars for the movie "The Last Emperor" (1987) Count Bertolucci forever the great filmmakers. The Italian Senate opened its session with a minute of silence in the filmmaker's honor.

Former President Giorgio Napolitano said that Bertolucci had deeply marked the film industry and the representation of the Italian nation. His illness he had carried with courage and dignity, without abandoning the artistic work, so Napolitano.

Sorrentino: "A huge director"

Many colleagues mourn Bertolucci. "The greatest of them are all gone, the last emperor of Italian cinema," said Italian director Roberto Benigni and his wife Nicoletta Braschi.

The winner of an Oscar, Paolo Sorrentino ("The Great Bellezza") emphasized that Bertolucci was his model. "For me, there is a direct line between Federico Fellini and Bertolucci, and when I started as a young director, Bertolucci was a myth for me, and later I knew him personally." He was a huge director. ", says Sorrentino. Featured actress Claudia Cardinale described Bertolucci as "the great protagonist of a fantastic era of Italian film".