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person_profile-Gillo Pontecorvo

Gillo Pontecorvo Died at age: 86

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Gillo Pontecorvo

Date of Birth:

Nov 19, 1919

Country of birth:

Italy

Died:

Oct 12, 2006

Biography of

Gillo Pontecorvo

    ​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.  

    Gillo Pontecorvo (19 November 1919 – 12 October 2006) was an Italian filmmaker. He worked as a film director for more than a decade before his best known film La battaglia di Algeri (The Battle of Algiers, 1966) was released. For this he was nominated for the Best Director Oscar in 1969 and won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in that year.

    His other films include Kapò (1960), which takes place in a World War II concentration camp, and Burn! (Queimada, 1969), starring Marlon Brando and loosely based on the failed slave revolution in Guadeloupe. In 2000, he received the Pietro Bianchi Award at the Venice Film Festival. He was also a screenwriter and composer of film scores, and a close friend of the Italian President Giorgio Napolitano.

    Description above from the Wikipedia article Gillo Pontecorvo, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Filmography of

Gillo Pontecorvo

Found 12 Movies in total

Return to Algiers

Himself ( Actor )

Director

... 1992

... 1989

Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer

Self ( Actor )

Director

... 1984

Operation Ogre

Screenplay

... 1979

Burn!

Director

... 1969

... 1966

Kapo

Screenplay

... 1960

The Wide Blue Road

(uncredited) ( Actor )

Screenplay

... 1957

... 1957

Toto and Carolina

First Assistant Director

... 1955

Love in the City

Assistant Director

... 1953

The Unfaithfuls

First Assistant Director

... 1953