Gilberto Pontecorvo Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI was an Italian filmmaker associated with the political cinema movement of the 1960s and '70s. He is best known for directing the landmark war docudrama The Battle of Algiers (1966).
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Photos 3
Filmography 24
The Battle of Algiers
The Stupids
Burn!
Kapo
Operation Ogre
The Wide Blue Road
Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker
12 Directors for 12 Cities
Outcry
Marxist Poetry: The Making of The Battle of Algiers
Pontecorvo: The Dictatorship of Truth
The Wind Rose
Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer
Return to Algiers
GiovannaHomo Cinematographicus
Five Directors On The Battle of Algiers
Gillo of Ladies and Knights, of Loves and Arms
La Bataille d'Alger, l'empreinte
Franco Cristaldi e il suo cinema Paradiso
The Spring of 2002 - Italy Protests, Italy StopsRome, November 12, 1994
SabatoventiquattromarzoUna storia per I 'energia
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Awards 4
In their orbit 3
Connected to Gillo 6
About this person
Gilberto Pontecorvo Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI was an Italian filmmaker associated with the political cinema movement of the 1960s and '70s. He is best known for directing the landmark war docudrama The Battle of Algiers (1966). It won the Golden Lion at the 27th Venice Film Festival, and earned him Oscar nominations for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay.
Country
ItalyCategory
Directors
Type
Movie Director
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1919 to 2006 · aged 86
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