Celebrated Italian filmmaker and writer Sergio Citti has died following a heart attack. He was 72.
The director suffered a coronary last week and didn't recover.
Citti's films credits include the 1977 comedy Casottot, which starred a young Jodie Foster, and Mortacci.
But Citti was best known for his partnership with maverick director Pier Paolo Pasolini, with whom he worked on 1961's Accattone and Mamma Roma a year later.
After Pasolini's brutal murder on a beach 30 years ago, Citti worked tirelessly for the investigation into his death to be resolved.
Rome's mayor, Walter Veltroni, says, "With the death of Sergio Citti, Rome-and not only Rome-loses one of the most sensitive representatives of its cultural life."
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