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Gillo Pontecorvo
Directing
Biography
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 to journalism and became correspondent in Paris for several Italian publications. In 1941, he joine…
Known For
Filmography
Movies
La Bataille d'Alger, l'empreinte
as Self (archive footage)
Franco Cristaldi e il suo cinema Paradiso
Gillo of Ladies and Knights, of Loves and Arms
as Self
Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker
as Self
Marxist Poetry: The Making of The Battle of Algiers
as Self
Five Directors On The Battle of Algiers
as Self
Homo Cinematographicus
as Self
The Stupids
as Talk show guest
Pontecorvo: The Dictatorship of Truth
as Self
Return to Algiers
as Himself