Gillo Pontecorvo

Gillo Pontecorvo

Gilberto Pontecorvo

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In the collection

2 records
The Ennio Morricone Anthology - A Fistful Of Film Music Ennio Morricone, 1995 Collected Ennio Morricone, 2014

Played with

Ennio Morricone 2 records together London Voices 1 record together I Cantori Moderni di Alessandroni 1 record together London Philharmonic Orchestra 1 record together Domenico Modugno 1 record together Joan Baez 1 record together

About

Italian filmmaker, screenwriter, journalist and chemist, (Pisa, Tuscany, November 19, 1919 - Rome, October 2006), he was the assistant of and , best known for directing The Battle Of Algiers (La Battaglia Di Algeri) in 1966, about the French colonialism and occupation of Algeria, and the war that ensued, he also directed Kapò, 1960, about the Nazi concentration camps, with and , Queimada, 1966, about the Western colonialism, with , as well as many other documentaries and films. He was member of the Italian Communist Party between 1941 to 1956, quitting it after the invasion of the soviets in Hungary, but affirming that he was still Marxist.