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 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 ...

Alex von Tunzelmann: Historical films don't come much more authentic than this – Gillo Pontecorvo's unforgettable drama even uses real-life veterans of the conflict to illuminate an ignominious period ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Gillo Pontecorvo, one of the great revolutionary film directors of all time, recently passed away at the age of 86. He is best known for two classic films about the struggle against colonialism, The ...

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 ...