This is reported by the ANSA agency with reference to his family.

It is noted that he died after a long illness. 

As stated by the actor's relatives, the funeral will be closed to the general public.

As the agency points out, the artist starred in many films, but the audience remembered most of all for his roles in the films "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg" and "The English Patient".

Earlier it became known that the French actor Jean-Paul Belmondo died at the 89th year of his life.