- Known For
- Directing
- Born
- November 19, 1919
- Place of Birth
- Pisa, Italy
- Died
- October 12, 2006
Gillo Pontecorvo
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 joined the Italian Communist Party (PCI), and participated in anti-fascist activities in northern Italy. After the Soviet repression of the Budapest uprising in 1956, he broke with the PCI, while continuing to claim Marxism. He started in cinema after the Second World War as assistant to Yves Allégret1 a…
Filmography
movieLa Bataille d'Alger, l'empreinte
2018 · Self (archive footage)
movieFranco Cristaldi e il suo cinema Paradiso
2009
movieGillo of Ladies and Knights, of Loves and Arms
2007 · Self
movieElio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker
2005 · Self
movieMarxist Poetry: The Making of The Battle of Algiers
2004 · Self
movieFive Directors On The Battle of Algiers
2004 · Self
movieThe Spring of 2002 - Italy Protests, Italy Stops
2002 · Director
Homo Cinematographicus
movieHomo Cinematographicus
1998 · Self
movieThe Stupids
1996 · Talk show guest
Rome, November 12, 1994
movieRome, November 12, 1994
1995 · Director
movieReturn to Algiers
1992 · Himself, Director
moviePontecorvo: The Dictatorship of Truth
1992 · Self
movie12 Directors for 12 Cities
1989 · Director
movieFarewell to Enrico Berlinguer
1984 · Self, Director
movieSabatoventiquattromarzo
1984 · Director
movieOperation Ogre
1979 · Director, Screenplay
movieBurn!
1969 · Director
movieThe Battle of Algiers
1966 · Original Music Composer, Director, Writer
movieKapo
1960 · Director, Original Music Composer, Screenplay
movieThe Wide Blue Road
1957 · (uncredited), Screenplay, Director
movieThe Wind Rose
1957 · Director
movieToto and Carolina
1955 · First Assistant Director
movieGiovanna
1955 · Director, Writer
movieLove in the City
1953 · Assistant Director
movieThe Unfaithfuls
1953 · First Assistant Director
movieL'Homme Que Nous Aimons Le Plus
1949 · Assistant Director
movieOutcry
1946 · Pietro
Una storia per I 'energia
movieUna storia per I 'energia
— · Director