The French director, screenwriter, producer and actor Claude Berri has died after a brain haemorrhage. He was 74-years.
The Oscar-winning filmmaker was hospitalized on-Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital in Paris for Sunday night and Monday morning, he slept without having come to consciousness.
Berri began his career as an actress and helped one another in several of Claude Chabrols films before with great success jumped on behind the camera.
In 1966 Berri was rewarded with an Oscar for the short film "Le Poulet" and is also known as the producer behind the Roman Polanskis romantic drama "Tess" from 1979.
He also produced films such as "Queen Margot," "Separation", "Asterix & Obelix in the struggle against Caesar" and "2 Asterix & Obelix: Mission Kleopatra".
As director Berri is best known for "Manon, and the source", "source in Provence" and "Uranus".
On the occasion of the death Berris said French President Nicolas Sarkozy that the nation has lost one of its biggest film artists.
"He spanned the entire record, and could both make us laugh and cry, but above all he got us to think. All who knew him in mourning", says in a statement from Sarkozy.
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