Bernardo Bertolucci celebrates the 65th anniversary

On Thursday, March 16, the outstanding Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci is 65 years old. Bertolucci was born on March 16, 1941 in the Parma in the family of poet artilleo Bertolucci. Bertolucci's first trial works were his amateur films - “Cable Road” (1957) and “The Death of the Pig” (1958).

Bertolucci began his career as an assistant as the famous director Pierre Paolo Pasolini, whom he met while studying at the Faculty of Philosophy in Rome.

According to Pazolini Bertolucci, in 1962, he shot his first film - "Boiled Kuma." In the same year, his book of poems “In Search of the Riddle” was published, for which Bertolucci received the Viaredjo Award.

Then followed the paintings “Before the Revolution” (1964) and “Partner” on Dostoevsky (1968). Glory came to the director two years after the release of the "conformist". The anti -fascist theme was continued in the television certificate "Spider Strategy", created on the basis of the essay of Jorge Luis Borhees.

World recognition was brought to the master of the films "The Last Tango in Paris" (1972) and the epic "Twentieth Century" (1976). Among the most noticeable works of the end of the past century, the critic calls the films "Little Buddha", "elusive beauty" and "siege".

In the new millennium, his film "Dreamers" about student unrest in Paris in 1968 aroused great interest. According to ITAR-TASS, Bernardo Bertolucci also publishes poetry and critical prose.