Gillo Pontecorvo
Film director
1919 – 2006
Who was Gillo Pontecorvo?
Gillo Pontecorvo was an Italian filmmaker. He worked as a film director for more than a decade before his best known film La battaglia di Algeri 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, which takes place in a World War II concentration camp, and Burn!, 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.
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- Born
- Nov 19, 1919
Pisa - Also known as
- G. Pontecorvo
- Gilberto Pontecorvo
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Henriette Pontecorvo
- Teresa Ricci
( - 2006/10/12)
- Children
- Ethnicity
- Jewish people
- Nationality
- Italy
- Kingdom of Italy
- Profession
- Education
- University of Pisa
- Lived in
- Pisa
- Died
- Oct 12, 2006
Rome
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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