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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.
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Gillo Pontecorvo Biography / Wiki
| Name | Gillo Pontecorvo |
| Also Know | 질로 í°í…Œì½”르보 |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Directing |
| Place of Birth | Pisa, Italy |
| Date of Birth | 1919-11-19 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 86 |
| Deathday | 2006-10-12 |
Gillo Pontecorvo Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Return to Algiers | Himself | 1992-05-13 | Gillo Pontecorvo, who directed the insurrectionary classic The Battle of Algiers in 1966, returns to the city of Algiers to view the progress Algeria … |
| Pontecorvo: The Dictatorship of Truth | Self | 1992-01-01 | … |
| Marxist Poetry: The Making of ‘The Battle of Algiers’ | Self | 2004-08-01 | … |
| Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker | Self | 2005-09-03 | A documentary on the director’s career, featuring interviews with friends, collaborators, and filmmakers…. |
| Outcry | Pietro | 1946-11-06 | A neorealist tribute to the Italian resistance fighters of World War II…. |
| The Stupids | Talk show guest | 1996-08-08 | An incredibly dull-witted family unknowingly stumble upon an illegal weapons deal while on the trail of their “stolen” garbage…. |
| The Wide Blue Road | 1957-11-22 | Squarciò, a fisherman, lives with his family on a small island off the Dalmatian coast of Italy. Like his fellow villagers, Squarciò struggles again… | |
Gillo Pontecorvo Directing Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Burn! | Director | 1969-12-21 | The professional mercenary Sir William Walker instigates a slave revolt on the Caribbean island of Queimada in order to help improve the British sugar… |
| Kapo | Director | 1960-09-27 | Determined to survive at any price, Edith, a young Jewish woman deported to an extermination camp, manages to survive by accepting the role of kapo, a… |
| Operation Ogre | Director | 1979-09-28 | Spain, 1973. Dictator Francisco Franco has ruled the country since 1939 with an iron fist; but he is now a very old and sick man. The future of the we… |
| The Battle of Algiers | Director | 1966-09-08 | Tracing the struggle of the Algerian Front de Liberation Nationale to gain freedom from French colonial rule as seen through the eyes of Ali from his … |
| 12 Directors for 12 Cities | Director | 1989-05-22 | Promotional omnibus film, made for the 1990 FIFA World Cup in Italy, featuring portraits of 12 Italian cities…. |
| The Wide Blue Road | Director | 1957-11-22 | Squarciò, a fisherman, lives with his family on a small island off the Dalmatian coast of Italy. Like his fellow villagers, Squarciò struggles again… |
| Return to Algiers | Director | 1992-05-13 | Gillo Pontecorvo, who directed the insurrectionary classic The Battle of Algiers in 1966, returns to the city of Algiers to view the progress Algeria … |
| The Wind Rose | Director | 1957-03-08 | An international anthology about the struggles of female workers around the world…. |
| Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer | Director | 1984-09-08 | A film of Enrico Berlinguer’s funeral in Rome, briefly tracing his career as leader of the Italian Communist Party…. |
| The Unfaithfuls | First Assistant Director | 1953-02-04 | A group of “respectable” people are all partly responsible for the suicide of a servant girl. They are pounced upon by a wily blackmailer, who knows t… |
| Toto and Carolina | First Assistant Director | 1955-03-02 | During a police raid at Villa Borghese, the agent, a widower named Antonio Caccavallo, stays to get better acquainted with the young Carolina…. |
| Love in the City | First Assistant Director | 1953-11-27 | Six separate episodes: would-be suicides discuss their despair. A provincial dance hall. An investigative reporter posing as a husband-to-be. A young … |
| Giovanna | Director | 1955-01-01 | This short is set in the early 1950s in a small textile factory in central Italy (Prato). Giovanna and her fellow female workers decide to enact a pro… |
Writing
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Burn! | Story | 1969-12-21 | The professional mercenary Sir William Walker instigates a slave revolt on the Caribbean island of Queimada in order to help improve the British sugar… |
| Operation Ogre | Screenplay | 1979-09-28 | Spain, 1973. Dictator Francisco Franco has ruled the country since 1939 with an iron fist; but he is now a very old and sick man. The future of the we… |
| The Battle of Algiers | Writer | 1966-09-08 | Tracing the struggle of the Algerian Front de Liberation Nationale to gain freedom from French colonial rule as seen through the eyes of Ali from his … |
| Kapo | Screenplay | 1960-09-27 | Determined to survive at any price, Edith, a young Jewish woman deported to an extermination camp, manages to survive by accepting the role of kapo, a… |
| The Wide Blue Road | Screenplay | 1957-11-22 | Squarciò, a fisherman, lives with his family on a small island off the Dalmatian coast of Italy. Like his fellow villagers, Squarciò struggles again… |
| Giovanna | Writer | 1955-01-01 | This short is set in the early 1950s in a small textile factory in central Italy (Prato). Giovanna and her fellow female workers decide to enact a pro… |
Sound
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| The Battle of Algiers | Original Music Composer | 1966-09-08 | Tracing the struggle of the Algerian Front de Liberation Nationale to gain freedom from French colonial rule as seen through the eyes of Ali from his … |
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