Gillo Pontecorvo

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 and Mario Monicelli in particular. From 1953, he produced his first documentary essays (Giovanna, MM, 1956). In 1956, he contributed to an episode of Die Windrose, supervised by Alberto Cavalcanti. The following year, he directed his first feature film, A Called Squarcio (La grande strada azzurra, produced by Maleno Malenotti, based on a novel by Franco Solinas). Then he describes the concentration camp world in the film Kapò (1960), the story of a Jewish woman who becomes an auxiliary of the Nazis. The film was nominated for an Oscar for best foreign language film in 1961. It gave rise to a famous controversy over the "Kapò tracking shot", which Jacques Rivette had deemed unworthy in an article in Cahiers du cinéma entitled "De l' abjection.” In 1966, he directed his most important film, The Battle of Algiers (La Battaglia di Algeri), a reconstruction of the police action of the French army during the Battle of Algiers which was a fundamental episode of the war. from Algeria. This film was awarded the Golden Lion at the Venice Festival, but remained banned in France for a long time and its exploitation caused a lot of uproar linked to the scenes of torture committed by the French army. In Queimada (1969), dominated by the interpretation of Marlon Brando, he once again attacks colonialism, with an evocation of the Haitian revolution at the beginning of the 19th century. Faced with the commercial failure of Queimada, Pontecorvo stopped making films. He still directed a secondary film, Operation Ogre (Ogro, 1979), on the assassination of Luis Carrero Blanco by ETA during Francoism, and collaborated on the film L'addio a Enrico Berlinguer (1984). In 1992, he was appointed director of the Venice Film Festival. In 1993, during the 50th edition of the Mostra, Pontecorvo presented Steven Spielberg with an honorary Golden Lion, at the time of the release of Schindler's List. He died on October 12, 2006, at the age of 86, in Rome, Italy.

  • Title: Gillo Pontecorvo
  • Popularity: 1.241
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1919-11-19
  • Place of Birth: Pisa, Italy
  • Homepage: https://www.spla.pro/fr/fiche.personnes.spla.5800.html
  • Also Known As: 질로 폰테코르보, جيلو بونتيكورفو
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Gillo Pontecorvo Movies

  • 1992
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    Pontecorvo: The Dictatorship of Truth

    Pontecorvo: The Dictatorship of Truth

    5.7 1992 HD

    Presented by the late literary critic Edward Said, this thirty-seven minute 1992 documentary reflects on director Gillo Pontecorvo's youth and...

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  • 2004
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    Marxist Poetry: The Making of The Battle of Algiers

    Marxist Poetry: The Making of The Battle of Algiers

    7.2 2004 HD

    To commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS, we revisited our edit of the film and interviews with director Gillo Pontecorvo and...

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  • 1946
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    Outcry

    Outcry

    6.1 1946 HD

    A neorealist tribute to the Italian resistance fighters of World War II.

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  • 1992
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    Return to Algiers

    Return to Algiers

    5 1992 HD

    Gillo Pontecorvo, who directed the insurrectionary classic The Battle of Algiers in 1966, returns to the city of Algiers to view the progress Algeria...

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  • 2005
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    Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker

    Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker

    6.7 2005 HD

    A documentary on the director’s career, featuring interviews with friends, collaborators, and filmmakers.

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  • 2018
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    La Bataille d'Alger, l'empreinte

    La Bataille d'Alger, l'empreinte

    10 2018 HD

    Cheikh Djemaï looks back on the genesis of Gillo Pontecorvo’s feature film, The Battle of Algiers (1965). Through archive images, extracts...

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  • 2004
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    Five Directors On The Battle of Algiers

    Five Directors On The Battle of Algiers

    10 2004 HD

    This 17-minute documentary is featured on the 3-Disc Criterion Collection DVD of The Battle of Algiers (1966), released in 2004. An in-depth look at...

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  • 2007
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    Gillo of Ladies and Knights, of Loves and Arms

    Gillo of Ladies and Knights, of Loves and Arms

    10 2007 HD

    Pontecorvo is one of those Italian filmmakers marked for life by neorealism. He declares that he decided to do cinema after leaving a screening of...

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  • 1984
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    Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer

    Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer

    6.2 1984 HD

    A film of Enrico Berlinguer's funeral in Rome, briefly tracing his career as leader of the Italian Communist Party.

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  • 1996
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    The Stupids

    The Stupids

    4.739 1996 HD

    An incredibly dull-witted family unknowingly stumble upon an illegal weapons deal while on the trail of their "stolen" garbage.

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  • 2009
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    Franco Cristaldi e il suo cinema Paradiso

    Franco Cristaldi e il suo cinema Paradiso

    1 2009 HD

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  • 1957
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    The Wide Blue Road

    The Wide Blue Road

    6 1957 HD

    Squarciò, a fisherman, lives with his family on a small island off the Dalmatian coast of Italy. Like his fellow villagers, Squarciò...

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  • 1998
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    Homo Cinematographicus

    Homo Cinematographicus

    1 1998 HD

    Homo Cinematographicus is a human species whose unit of measurement and point of reference is the cinema and its derivative, television. Filmed at...

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  • 1957
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    The Wide Blue Road

    The Wide Blue Road

    6 1957 HD

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  • 1955
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    Giovanna

    Giovanna

    6 1955 HD

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  • 1955
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    Giovanna

    Giovanna

    6 1955 HD

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  • 1969
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    Burn!

    Burn!

    6.738 1969 HD

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  • 1979
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    Operation Ogre

    Operation Ogre

    6.8 1979 HD

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  • 1979
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    Operation Ogre

    Operation Ogre

    6.8 1979 HD

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  • 1966
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    The Battle of Algiers

    The Battle of Algiers

    7.9 1966 HD

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  • 1966
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    The Battle of Algiers

    The Battle of Algiers

    7.9 1966 HD

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  • 1966
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    The Battle of Algiers

    The Battle of Algiers

    7.9 1966 HD

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  • 1960
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    Kapo

    Kapo

    6.908 1960 HD

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  • 1989
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    12 Directors for 12 Cities

    12 Directors for 12 Cities

    5 1989 HD

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  • 1957
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    The Wide Blue Road

    The Wide Blue Road

    6 1957 HD

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  • 1992
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    Return to Algiers

    Return to Algiers

    5 1992 HD

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  • 1953
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    The Unfaithfuls

    The Unfaithfuls

    5.7 1953 HD

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  • 1955
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    Toto and Carolina

    Toto and Carolina

    6.4 1955 HD

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  • 1960
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    Kapo

    Kapo

    6.908 1960 HD

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  • 1957
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    The Wind Rose

    The Wind Rose

    5 1957 HD

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  • 2002
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    The Spring of 2002 - Italy Protests, Italy Stops

    The Spring of 2002 - Italy Protests, Italy Stops

    1 2002 HD

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  • 1995
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    Rome, November 12, 1994

    Rome, November 12, 1994

    1 1995 HD

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  • 1953
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    Love in the City

    Love in the City

    6.5 1953 HD

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  • 1984
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    Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer

    Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer

    6.2 1984 HD

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  • 1960
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    Kapo

    Kapo

    6.908 1960 HD

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