Gillo Pontecorvo

Gillo Pontecorvo was born in Pisa in 1919, into a well-off family several of whose children became scientists, such as the physicist Bruno Pontecorvo. He gave up studies in chemistry and joined this brother in Paris in 1938, where he worked as a journalist for the Havas agency. Back in Italy, he took part in the Resistance in Milan under the name Barnaba. He came to cinema through documentary in the early 1950s and made only a few feature films. He directed the Venice Mostra from 1992 and died in Rome in 2006.

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• CinemaThe Battle of AlgiersLa battaglia di AlgeriGillo Pontecorvo · 1966Cinema