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.
Operation Ogre
The Stupids
The Battle of Algiers
Love in the City
Burn!
Kapo
Toto and Carolina
12 Directors for 12 Cities
The Wide Blue Road
Pontecorvo: The Dictatorship of Truth
Marxist Poetry: The Making of The Battle of Algiers
Outcry
The Unfaithfuls
Return to Algiers
Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker
Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer
The Wind Rose
Five Directors On The Battle of Algiers
Giovanna
The Spring of 2002 - Italy Protests, Italy Stops
