Bertolucci

The Premiere Nights Athens Film Festival presents the city's first comprehensive retrospective on the award-winning Italian filmmaker Bernardo Bertolucci (1941-2018).

Bernardo Bertolucci, whose epic "The Last Emperor" won nine Oscars and who influenced generations of filmmakers with other groundbreaking works such as "The Conformist" and "Last Tango in Paris," in which he explored politics and sexuality through personal storytelling and audacious camera work, has died. He was 77, reported Variety.com

Bernardo Bertolucci, the Italian director famous for movies such as “Last Tango in Paris” and “The Last Emperor”, has died at 77, Italian media reported on Monday.

Bertolucci, who hailed from the northern Italian town of Parma, had been ill and died at his home in Rome, media said.