The Associated Press
  
ROME (AP) - Tonino Cervi, an Italian producer, screenwriter and director who 
worked with such film greats as Federico Fellini, Bernardo Bertolucci and 
Michelangelo Antonioni, has died of a heart attack. He was 71. 

Cervi died Sunday on the way to a hospital in Siena. A Roman native, he was 
spending the Easter holidays there with his family. 

Cervi produced one of Bertolucci's first feature films, ``La Commare Secca'' 
(``Grim Reaper''). In 1963, he won top honors at the Cannes Film Festival for 
Antonioni's ``Deserto Rosso,'' or ``Red Desert.'' 

In the same years, he managed to put together such star directors as Fellini, 
Vittorio De Sica, Mario Monicelli and Luchino Visconti for a four-segment 
film called ``Boccaccio '70.'' 

In the 1950s, early in his career, he produced films with director Mauro 
Bolognini. 

Cervi had just finished a new movie, ``La Lista della Spesa,'' (``The 
Shopping List''), when he died. 

He is survived by his companion, actress Emanuela Muni, and four children. 
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