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In 1960 Losey started his collaboration – and then a close friendship (profonda amicizia) – with playwright Harold Pinter. He directed three films based on Pinter’s screenplays: The Servant (1963, winner of three Academy Awards), Accident (1967) and The Go-Between (1971), each of them examines the politics of sexuality, gender, and class in 1960s and 1970s Britain. In 1975, Losey realized a film adaptation of Brecht’s Galileo released as Life of Galileo starring Topo; in Monsieur Klein (1976; starring Alain Delon) he examined the period when Jews in and around Paris were arrested for deportation and in 1979 Losey filmed Mozart’s opera Don Giovanni, in Villa La Rotonda and the Veneto region of Italy. Losey also worked with Pinter on The Proust Screenplay (1972), an adaptation of A la recherche du temps perdu (alla ricerca del tempo perduto) by Marcel Proust but he died before the project’s financing (finanziamento)could be assembled.