Francesco Rosi (15 November 1922 – 10 January 2015) was an
Italian film director. His film
The Mattei Affair won the
Palme d'Or at the
1972 Cannes Film Festival. Rosi's films, especially those of the 1960s and 1970s, often appeared to have political messages. While the topics for his later films became less politically oriented and more angled toward literature, he continued to direct until 1997, his last film being the
Primo Levi book adaptation
The Truce.