New York Times :

Francesco Rosi, a filmmaker who was fascinated with power, poverty and politics, and whose commitment to social issues made him a direct heir to the traditions of Italian neorealist cinema of the postwar years, died on Saturday in Rome. He was 92.

Mayor Ignazio Marino of Rome announced his death.

The French critic Michel Ciment once counted Mr. Rosi among “the three last giants of Italian cinema,” the others being Federico Fellini and Michelangelo Antonioni. His films won top prizes at the Cannes, Venice and Berlin film festivals. Yet he never acquired the kind of international fame many of his peers knew.

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