Gillo Pontecorvo

Born: Nov 19, 1919, Pisa, Italy

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.

Real Name	Gillo Pontecorvo
Date of Birth	Nov 19, 1919
Place of Birth	Pisa, Italy
Age	86
Death Day	2006-10-12

POPULAR MOVIES

Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker

Marxist Poetry: The Making of 'The Battle of Algiers'

The Stupids

Return to Algiers

Pontecorvo: The Dictatorship of Truth

12 Directors for 12 Cities

Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer

Operation Ogre

Burn!

The Battle of Algiers

Kapo

The Wide Blue Road

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