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Tinto Brass, director of Caligula and maestro of Euro erotica, dies aged 93

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Tinto Brass, the influential Italian director known for erotic films like Caligula, has died at age 93, marking the end of a career that significantly shaped Euro cinema.

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The cult Italian film-maker began as an assistant to Roberto Rossellini but moved into sex films, believing ‘eroticism to be a fundamental key to human expression’Italian film director Tinto Brass, who was once hailed as the “Antonioni of the 70s” but came to be better known for bringing Italian erotic cinema to a wider audience with films such as Caligula and Salon Kitty, has died aged 93.His wife Caterina Varzi and children Bonifacio and Beatrice Brass announced the news of the director’s death to Italian press agency Ansa on Wednesday. Continue reading...

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