Gillo Pontecorvo, who has died aged 86, was a gentle man with kind, twinkling eyes, who, among innumerable achievements, directed the classic film The Battle of Algiers (1965). Edward Said said that ...

2006-10-14 04:00:00 PDT Rome-- Gillo Pontecorvo, the Italian filmmaker who explored terrorism and torture in colonial Algeria in his powerful and influential 1965 classic "The Battle of Algiers," died ...

Gillo was approached by the leader of the insurgency in the Algiers Casbah, Saadi Yacef, to make a film about the battle against French occupation. In the end, Yacef was just one of many real people ...

Italian filmmaker Gillo Pontecorvo, who directed the black-and-white classic “The Battle of Algiers,” has died in Rome, hospital officials said Friday. He was 86. Pontecorvo died Thursday night, ...

Saadi Yacef, as revolutionary leader El-hadi Jaffar (second from left) and Brahim Haggiag (right) as revolutionary leader Ali La Pointe in a scene from Gillo Pontecorvo's The Battle Of Algiers. In the ...

ROME - Italian filmmaker Gillo Pontecorvo, who directed the black-and-white classic The Battle of Algiers, has died in Rome at age 86, hospital officials said Friday. Pontecorvo died Thursday night, ...

Gilberto Pontecorvo, film director: born Pisa, Italy 19 November 1919; twice married (three sons); died Rome 12 October 2006. In Gillo Pontecorvo's 1965 masterpiece, La Battaglia di Algeri (The Battle ...

Gillo Pontecorvo, who died on Thursday aged 86, was a radical Italian director whose best-known picture, The Battle of Algiers, won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival; it was banned in France ...

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 ...