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 ...

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, ...

Gillo Pontecorvo, the Italian filmmaker best known for directing Battle of Algiers (1966), died October 12 at a hospital in Rome at the age of 86. The cause of death was not immediately revealed, but ...

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A documentary about Gillo Pontecorvo, the famous director of "The Battle of Algiers". Based on family photos and movies, made with the precious help of Simone Pontecorvo, this is a 63 minutes trip ...

Gillo Pontecorvo, director of the 1965 film The Battle of Algiers (see: “A timeless portrait of the anti-colonial struggle in Algeria”) spoke recently by phone to Maria Esposito from the World ...

Marlon Brando week concludes at Trailers from Hell with screenwriter Larry Karaszewski introducing "Burn!," Gillo Pontecorvo's follow-up to "The Battle of Algiers." Director Gillo Pontecorvo followed ...

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 ...

Politically passionate Italo helmer Gillo Pontecorvo, whose realistic re-construction of urban clashes between Algerian nationalists and French troops, “The Battle of Algiers,” became a ...