The famous actor was 91 years old
by Stefano Biolchini and Andrea Chimento
With him a piece of history of the great French and Italian cinema disappears. Jean-Louis Trintignant died at the age of 91. The unforgettable protagonist of “Il sorpasso” by Dino Risi alongside Vittorio Gassman came to the fore in 1955 alongside Brigitte Bardot, with whom he also had a brief relationship, in “And God created woman” by Roger Vadim. Among his other Italian films, “Il conformista” by Bernardo Bertolucci in 1970, “La donna della Domenica” by Luigi Comencini in ’75, and “The desert of the Tartars” by Valerio Zurlini in ’76. He came to international success with Claude Lelouch’s “A man, a woman” in 1966 alongside Ainouk Aimée.
The news of Trintignant’s death was given to the French press by his wife, Mariane Hoepfner Trintignant, in a press release saying that the actor died “peacefully, of old age, this morning, in his home, in Gard, surrounded from loved ones “.
