Bernardo Bertolucci. Source: Wikipedia In Rome, Monday at the age of 77, film director Bernardo Bertolucci died. It is reported by Reuters. Recently, Bertolucci was sick. The director was born on March 16, 1941 in Parma, the Emilia -Romania region, in the family of Atlio Bertolucci, a famous historian of art, poet and film critic. Since 1958 he studied modern literature at the University of Roman; Then he began to work as an assistant at the film director Pierre Paolo Pazolini.