Biography (1)
Gillo Pontecorvo (1919-2006) was an Italian filmmaker and journalist best known for his much lauded masterpiece The Battle of Algiers (1966), for which he also won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1966. He grew up in a Jewish family and when anti-Semitism was on the rise in the fascist Italy of the 1930s, Pontecorvo fled to Paris in 1938. There, he became involved in the film world, and worked as an assistant to Dutch documentary maker Joris Ivens.… (more)
Gallery (3)
Director
Movies | |
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1997 |
I corti italiani |
1979 |
Operation Ogre |
1969 |
Burn! |
1966 |
The Battle of Algiers |
1959 |
Kapò |
1957 |
The Wide Blue Road |
Documentaries | |
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2001 |
Another World Is Possible |
1995 |
Roma dodici Novembre 1994 |
1989 |
12 registi per 12 città |
1984 |
L'addio a Enrico Berlinguer |
1963 |
Paras |
1959 |
Pane e zolfo |
1955 |
Cani dietro le sbarre |
1954 |
Festa a Castelluccio |
Porta Portese |
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1953 |
Missione Timiriazev |
Short | |
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1997 |
Nostalgia di protezione |
1955 |
Giovanna |
Composer
Movies | |
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1966 |
The Battle of Algiers |
Screenwriter
Movies | |
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1979 |
Operation Ogre |
1959 |
Kapò |
1957 |
The Wide Blue Road |
Short | |
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1997 |
Nostalgia di protezione |
Actor
Movies | |
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1996 |
The Stupids |
1957 |
The Wide Blue Road |
1946 |
Outcry |
Documentaries | |
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2009 |
Franco Cristaldi e il suo cinema Paradiso |
2005 |
Elio Petri: Notes on a Filmmaker |
Un controtipo - appunti su Gillo Pontecorvo |
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2004 |
Marxist Poetry: The Making of 'The Battle of Algiers' |
1998 |
Homo cinematographicus (TV movie) |
1996 |
Ritratti d'autore (series) |
1995 |
Ennio Morricone (TV movie) |