Actor and director Francesco Nuti passed away this Monday in Rome. He was 68 years old and had been ill for some time. 

The news was given by his daughter Ginevra together with the family members who sincerely thank the health personnel and all those who treated him during his long illness, in particular the staff of Villa Verde in Rome. 

The family requests that the moment of great pain be respected "and therefore does not intend to make any statement". 

Francesco Nuti has lived two lives: the first as an actor and director, performer of the kind of romantic and bitter comedy that had a great influence on comedians of later generations - which with its tenderness was a champion in the archives of the '80s; the second, already a victim of the crisis of his comic cinema, characterized by an ordeal of falls, accidents and illnesses, which since 2006 had made him semi-sick. 

Through a pronounced dialectal cadence and characters playing in the attempt to regain the dominant role within the couple, Nuti has performed brilliant comedies with vaguely surreal tones that have had amazing success: "Io, Chiara e lo Scuro", "Casablanca, Casablanca" , "All because of heaven", "Bewitched", "Caruso Pascoski of a Polish father", "Willy Signori and I come from afar", to "Women in skirts", a successful film which in 1991 /92 broke every box office record, marking the most successful moment of his career: he was the screenwriter, director and lead actor alongside the beautiful Carole Bouquet.