Gillo Pontecorvo
Directing 1919-11-19 Pisa, Italy
Gillo Pontecorvo, born November 19, 1919 in Pisa and died October 12, 2006 in Rome, is an Italian filmmaker. Of Italian Jewish origin, Gillou Pontecorvo is the brother of Bruno Pontecorvo, a nuclear physicist working for the USSR, and Guido Pontecorvo, an Italian-British geneticist, as well as the grandson of the Jewish industrialist Pellegrino Pontecorvo. He has three sons: Marco (cinematographer and director), Simone (painter) and Ludovico (physicist). A chemist by training, he quickly turned…
Known For
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The Stupids
1996
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Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer
1984
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Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker
2005
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The Wide Blue Road
1957
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Outcry
1946
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Franco Cristaldi e il suo cinema Paradiso
2009
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Five Directors On The Battle of Algiers
2004
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Marxist Poetry: The Making of The Battle of Algiers
2004
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Return to Algiers
1992
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Pontecorvo: The Dictatorship of Truth
1992
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La Bataille d'Alger, l'empreinte
2018
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Gillo of Ladies and Knights, of Loves and Arms
2007