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Gillo Pontecorvo
Director 1919 - 2006

Gillo Pontecorvo

Pisa, Italy

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... Read full bio →

Directed Films

Every film this person directed

4 titles
Ogro

Ogro

Gillo Pontecorvo 1979 1h 41m

Spain, 1973. Dictator Francisco Franco has ruled the country since 1939 with an iron fist; but he is now a very old and sick man. The future of the weakened regime is in danger. Admiral Carrero Blanco is his natural successor. The Basque terrorist gang ETA decides that he must die to prevent the dictatorship from continuing.

Queimada!

Queimada!

Gillo Pontecorvo 1969 2h 9m

The professional mercenary Sir William Walker instigates a slave revolt on the Caribbean island of Queimada in order to help improve the British sugar trade. Years later he is sent again to deal with the same rebels that he built up because they have seized to much power that now threatens British sugar interests.

La battaglia di Algeri

La battaglia di Algeri

Gillo Pontecorvo 1966 2h 2m 7.8

The French Colonel...who was forced even to torture! One of the many women...who stopped at nothing to win! The Algerian Street Boy...who became a rebel hero!

Kapò

Kapò

Gillo Pontecorvo 1960 1h 57m 7.3

A young Jewish girl leads an escape attempt from a concentration camp.

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