Gillo Pontecorvo
Directing
November 19, 1919
Died October 12, 2006 (86 years old)
Pisa, Italy
13
Acting Credits
13
Directed
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...
Known For
Filmography
La Bataille d'Alger, l'empreinte
2018
as Self (archive footage)
10
Franco Cristaldi e il suo cinema Paradiso
2009
Gillo of Ladies and Knights, of Loves and Arms
2007
as Self
10
Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker
2005
as Self
6.7
Marxist Poetry: The Making of The Battle of Algiers
2004
as Self
7.2
Five Directors On The Battle of Algiers
2004
as Self
10
Homo Cinematographicus
1998
as Self
8
The Stupids
1996
as Talk show guest
4.8
Pontecorvo: The Dictatorship of Truth
1992
as Self
6
Return to Algiers
1992
as Himself
5
Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer
1984
as Self
6.5
The Wide Blue Road
1957
as (uncredited)
6.2
Outcry
1946
as Pietro
6.7