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He began work at Rome's Cinecittà studio at the age of sixteen. By the mid-1940s he was working as a cinematographer and in 1952 shot the first Italian film in colour, Totò a colori. He went on to work with a number of acclaimed, and diverse, directors, including Sergio Leone (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Once Upon a Time in the West and Once Upon a Time in America), Roman Polanski (Death and the Maiden and Bitter Moon), Louis Malle (Lacombe Lucien), Jean-Jacques Annaud (The Name of the Rose), and Federico Fellini, whose last three films he photographed. His collaboration with Pier Paolo Pasolini was especially fruitful: they made twelve films together, including Pasolini's debut Accattone (1961), Mamma Roma (1962), The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964), The Decameron (1971), The Canterbury Tales (1972) and Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma (1976). City motto: Senatus Populusque Romanus – SPQR (The Senate and the People of Rome) Founded 21 April 753 BC mythical, 1st millennium BC Region Latium Mayor Walter Veltroni (Democratici di Sinistra) Area  - City Proper  1290 km² Population  - City (2004)  - Metropolitan  - Density (city proper) 2,546,807 almost 4,000,000 1... Cinecittà is a large film studio in Rome in Italy. ... Sergio Leone (January 3, 1929 – April 30, 1989) was an Italian film director. ... The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo) is a 1966 Spaghetti Western film directed by Sergio Leone and starring Clint Eastwood (Blondie, the Man with No Name or The Good ), Lee Van Cleef (Angel Eyes Sentenza or the Bad), and Eli Wallach (Tuco Benedito... Once Upon a Time in the West (Cera una volta il West, 1968), directed by Sergio Leone, is considered by many to be his greatest and most critically acclaimed film, and by some even as the greatest Western ever made. ... Once Upon a Time in America (original title Cera una volta in America) (1984) is director Sergio Leones last film. ... Roman Polański Roman Polanski (born August 18, 1933) is a celebrated Polish film director and actor. ... Death and the Maiden is: an old motif in literature and art [1]. See Death and the Maiden (motif) a song by Franz Schubert, see List of compositions by Schubert a string quartet in D minor by Franz Schubert, composed c. ... Categories: 1992 films | Stub ... Louis Malle (October 30, 1932 - November 23, 1995) was a French film director. ... Jean-Jacques Annaud (born October 1st, 1943) is a French film director. ... The Name of the Rose, a 1980 novel by Umberto Eco, is a murder mystery set in an Italian monastery in the year 1327 during the papacy of Pope John XXII. The book was also made into a film in 1986, directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud and starring Sean Connery... Federico Fellini (January 20, 1920 – October 31, 1993) was a famous Italian film-maker and director. ... Pier Paolo Pasolini (March 5, 1922 – November 2, 1975) was an Italian poet, film director, and writer, who often made films about the social outcast and rebels. ... Il Vangelo secondo Matteo is a 1964 Italian film directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini. ... The Decameron is a 1970 Italian film directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini and is based on the novel Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio. ... I racconti di Canterbury is a 1972 Italian film directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini and is based on the novel The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. ... Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma (Salo or the 120 Days of Sodom) is a 1976 film by Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini, based on the book The 120 Days of Sodom by the Marquis de Sade. ...

His last film was Roberto Benigni's Life Is Beautiful (1997), for which he won his fourth David di Donatello Award for Best Cinematography. In 2005 he was awarded the American Society of Cinematographers' International Achievement Award. In August of the same year, he died at home in Rome. Roberto Benigni (born October 27, 1952) is an Italian film and television actor and director. ... Life Is Beautiful (in Italian La Vita è bella) is a 1997 Italian language film which tells the story of an Italian Jew, Guido Orefice (played by Roberto Benigni), who lives in a romantic fairy tale, but must learn how to use that dreamy quality to survive a concentration camp with... The American Society of Cinematographers is not a labor union or guild, but is an educational, cultural and professional organization. ...

External links

• "A Lifetime Through the Lens": article from American Cinematographer