Gillo Pontecorvo, Italian director and screenwriter (born 1919)

Gillo Pontecorvo

Italian film director (1919–2006)

Gilberto Pontecorvo Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI was an Italian filmmaker associated with the political cinema movement of the 1960s and 1970s. He is best known for directing the landmark war docudrama The Battle of Algiers (1966). It won the Golden Lion at the 27th Venice Film…