Gillo Pontecorvo

Gillo Pontecorvo was an Italian filmmaker. He worked as a film director for more than a decade before his best known film La battaglia di Algeri was released. It won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1966.

Pontecorvo, born in Pisa, was the son of a wealthy nonobservant Italian Jewish family. His father was a businessman. Gillo was the brother of Bruno Pontecorvo, an internationally acclaimed physicist and one of the socalled Via Panisperna boys Guido Pontecorvo, a geneticist Pol Pontecorvo, an engineer who worked on radar after WWII Giuliana Laura Anna and David Maraoni.

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