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Pontecorvo es un pueblo en la provincia de Frosinone, Lacio, Italia. Posee una población de 13.400 habitantes. Historia. La villa se encuentra al pie de Roccaguglielma, una fortificación medieval enclavada en una roca inaccesible.
- Gillo Pontecorvo - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre
Gilberto Pontecorvo, conocido como Gillo Pontecorvo ( Pisa,...
- Bruno Pontecorvo - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre
Bruno Pontecorvo. Bruno Pontecorvo (italiano [ponte'korvo]...
- Gillo Pontecorvo - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre
Pontecorvo is a town and comune in the province of Frosinone, Lazio, Italy. Its population is c. 13,200. History. The village lies under Rocca Guglielma, a medieval fortification perched on an inaccessible spur.
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Pontecorvo, born in Pisa, was the son of a wealthy secular Italian Jewish family. His father was a businessman. Gillo's siblings included brothers Bruno Pontecorvo, an internationally acclaimed nuclear physicist and one of the so-called Via Panisperna boys, who defected to the Soviet Union in 1950; Guido Pontecorvo, a geneticist; and Polì [Paul] Po...
Early films
After the Second World War and his return to Italy, Pontecorvo decided to leave journalism for filmmaking, a shift that appears to have been developing for some time. The catalyst was his seeing Roberto Rossellini's Paisà (1946). He bought a 16mm camera and shot several documentaries, mostly self-funded, beginning with Missione Timiriazev in 1953. He directed Giovanna, which was one episode of La rosa dei venti(1957), a film made of episodes by several directors. In 1957 he directed his first...
The Battle of Algiers
Pontecorvo is best known for his 1966 masterpiece The Battle of Algiers (released in Italian as La battaglia di Algeri). It is widely viewed as one of the finest films of its genre: a neorealistic film. Its portrayal of the Algerian resistance during the Algerian War uses the neorealist style pioneered by fellow Italian film directors de Santis and Rossellini. He used newsreel-style footage and non-professional actors. He focused primarily on the native Algerians, a disenfranchised population...
Late career
Pontecorvo's next major work, Queimada! (Burn!, 1969), deals with a fictional slave revolt, this time set in the Lesser Antilles. This film (starring Marlon Brando) depicts an attempted revolution in a fictional Portuguese colony. Pontecorvo continued his series of highly political films with Ogro (1979), which addresses the occurrence of Basque terrorism at the end of Francisco Franco's dwindling dictatorship in Spain. He continued making short films into the early 1990s and directed a follo...
Short films
1. Giovanna (1957, segment of Die Windrose) 2. Udine (1984, segment of 12 registi per 12 città) 3. Gillo Pontecorvo's Return to Algiers(1992) 4. Danza della fata confetto(1996) 5. Nostalgia di protezione(1997)
Bignardi, Irene (1999). Memorie estorte a uno smemorato. Vita di Gillo Pontecorvo. Feltrinelli.Celli, Carlo (2005). Gillo Pontecorvo: From Resistance to Terrorism. Lanham: Scarecrow Press.Ebert, Roger. Pontecorvo: 'We Trust the Face of Brando'Chicago Sun-Times. (April 13, 1969)Fanon, Frantz (2001). Pour la revolution africaine: Essais politiques. Paris: La Decouverte.Gillo Pontecorvo at IMDb(in French) Edition de « De l'abjection » (1961) par Jacques Rivette, critique du film Kapo(1959) de Pontecorvo, sur le site d'analyse L'oBservatoire (simple appareil).(in French) Présentation de La Bataille d'Algerde Gillo Pontecorvo, sur le site d'analyse L'oBservatoire (simple appareil).Bruno Pontecorvo (Italian: [ponteˈkɔrvo]; Russian: Бру́но Макси́мович Понтеко́рво, Bruno Maksimovich Pontecorvo; 22 August 1913 – 24 September 1993) was an Italian and Soviet nuclear physicist, an early assistant of Enrico Fermi and the author of numerous studies in high energy physics, especially on ...
Pontecorvo y Solinas crearon varios protagonistas en su guion que se basan en figuras históricas de la guerra. La historia comienza y termina desde la perspectiva de Ali la Pointe (Brahim Haggiag), un delincuente de poca monta que se radicaliza políticamente mientras está en prisión.
