Gillo Pontecorvo
Birthday
1919/11/19
Day of death
2006/10/12 (86 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Pisa, Italy
Also know as
질로 폰테코르보, جيلو بونتيكورفو
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...Read more
Acting
(1992) Pontecorvo: The Dictatorship of Truth
as Self
(2004) Marxist Poetry: The Making of The Battle of Algiers
as Self
(1946) Outcry
as Pietro
(1992) Return to Algiers
as Himself
(2005) Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker
as Self
(2018) La Bataille d'Alger, l'empreinte
as Self (archive footage)
(2004) Five Directors On The Battle of Algiers
as Self
(2007) Gillo of Ladies and Knights, of Loves and Arms
as Self
(1984) Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer
as Self
(1996) The Stupids
as Talk show guest
(2009) Franco Cristaldi e il suo cinema Paradiso
as ---
(1957) The Wide Blue Road
as (uncredited)
(1998) Homo Cinematographicus
as Self