19.11.1919 - 12.10.2006 (86 years) (Pisa, Italy)
Gillo Pontecorvo (Italian: [ˈdʒillo ponteˈkɔrvo]; 19 November 1919 – 12 October 2006) was an Italian filmmaker. He worked as a film director for more than a decade before his best known film La battaglia di Algeri (The Battle of Algiers, 1966) was released. It won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1966. His other films include Kapò (1960), which takes place in a World War II concentration camp, Burn! (Queimada, 1969), starring Marlon Brando about the machinations of colonial powers in small countries, and Ogro (1979), which reconstructs the murder of Luis Carrero Blanco by ETA. In 2000, he received the Pietro Bianchi Award at the Venice Film Festival. He was also a screenwriter and composer of film scores, and a close friend of Italian President Giorgio Napolitano.