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    Italian Republic. Pontecorvo, born in Pisa, was the son of a wealthy secular Italian Jewish family. His father was a businessman. Gillo's siblings included...
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  • The Battle of Algiers (category Films directed by Gillo Pontecorvo)
    al-Jazāʾir) is a 1966 Italian-Algerian war film co-written and directed by Gillo Pontecorvo. It is based on action undertaken by rebels during the Algerian War...
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    German Army closed in on Paris during the Second World War, Pontecorvo, his brother Gillo, cousin Emilio Sereni and Salvador Luria fled the city on bicycles...
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  • Burn! (category Films directed by Gillo Pontecorvo)
    (original title: Queimada) is a 1969 historical war drama film directed by Gillo Pontecorvo. Set in the mid-19th century, the film stars Marlon Brando as a British...
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    industrialists. He was one of eight children. He was a brother to Gillo Pontecorvo and Bruno Pontecorvo. He was dismissed from his post in Florence in 1938, due...
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  • painter, and philosopher Gillo Pontecorvo (1919–2006), Italian filmmaker Notable people with the surname include: Hank Gillo (1894–1948), American football...
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  • Kapo (1960 film) (category Films directed by Gillo Pontecorvo)
    [kaˈpɔ]) is a 1960 historical war drama film directed and co-written by Gillo Pontecorvo. It was one of the first narrative films to deal explicitly with the...
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    Centurions, translates to "The Centurions". The Battle of Algiers by Gillo Pontecorvo (1966). It was banned in France for five years. Elise ou la vraie vie...
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  • physicist Eugene Pontecorvo, fictional character on the HBO series, The Sopranos Gillo Pontecorvo (1919–2006), Italian filmmaker Guido Pontecorvo (1907–1999)...
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    Polanski, Henri Verneuil, Mario Bava, Lucio Fulci, Umberto Lenzi, Gillo Pontecorvo, and Pier Paolo Pasolini. His best-known compositions include "The...
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    President. The Golden Lion winner was The Battle of Algiers, directed by Gillo Pontecorvo. Giorgio Bassani, Italian writer - Jury President Lindsay Anderson...
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  • analyzing two political films made in a realist style: Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo, 1966) and Z (Constantin Costa-Gavras, 1969), both of which he described...
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  • (psychology) Trusty system (prison) Kapo, a 1960 film directed by Gillo Pontecorvo. Escape from Sobibor, a 1987 television movie which features a kapo...
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    January 2019). "Costa-Gavras à propos de "La Bataille d'Alger" de Gillo Pontecorvo". YouTube. LaCinetek. Retrieved 11 April 2023. Wade Major (Fall 2009)...
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    directed by Francesco Rosi) as Carlo Levi Ogro (1979, directed by Gillo Pontecorvo) as Izarra Stark System (1980, directed by Armenia Balducci) as Stark...
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  • The 75th Venice International Film Festival was held from 29 August to 8 September 2018. Mexican film director Guillermo del Toro was the Jury President...
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    alongside Marlon Brando under the direction of Gillo Pontecorvo. Before his involvement with Pontecorvo he was a herdsman and illiterate. Márquez appeared...
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  • Steven Spielberg receiving the prize from Gillo Pontecorvo in 1993...
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    directed by John Cromwell; The Battle of Algiers, 1966, directed by Gillo Pontecorvo; Tahya ya Didou, Alger Insolite, 1970, Mohammed Zinet; Bab El-Oued...
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    Pasolini (1966) The Battle of Algiers (La battaglia di Algeri) by Gillo Pontecorvo (1966) China Is Near (La Cina è vicina) by Marco Bellocchio (1967)...
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  • drama ¡Queimada!, starring Marlon Brando. Both films were directed by Gillo Pontecorvo. Solinas is also credited with writing several notable Zapata westerns...
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    character of 'Ali La Pointe' in the film The Battle of Algiers directed by Gillo Pontecorvo. The film became a blockbuster in that year and Haggiag was selected...
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  • Ogro (category Films directed by Gillo Pontecorvo)
    Ogro is a 1979 Spanish and Italian drama film written and directed by Gillo Pontecorvo. The film is based on true events in Spain during the early 1970s and...
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    of Algiers (1966) by Gillo Pontecorvo The battle of Algiers was produced in 1966 directed by Italian filmmaker Gillo Pontecorvo and written by Franco...
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  • Marco Pontecorvo (born November 8, 1966, Rome) is an Italian cinematographer and film director. Marco Pontecorvo was initially interested in black and...
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  • The company produced and/or distributed films by Federico Fellini, Gillo Pontecorvo, Luchino Visconti, Michelangelo Antonioni, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Pietro...
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    The Virgin Spring Jungfrukällan Ingmar Bergman Sweden Swedish Kapo Gillo Pontecorvo Italy Italian La Vérité Henri-Georges Clouzot France French Macario...
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    analyzing two political films made in a realist style: Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo, 1966) and Z (Constantin Costa-Gavras, 1969), both of which he described...
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    Friedkin, Michelangelo Antonioni, Claude Chabrol, Luchino Visconti, and Gillo Pontecorvo. Paco Rabal was recognized both in his native Spain and internationally...
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    The 72nd annual Venice International Film Festival took place from 2 to 12 September 2015. Alfonso Cuarón served as the president of the jury for the main...
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