Gillo Pontecorvo, the director of The Battle of Algiers
For Carlos Gimenez Soria
For Carlos Gimenez Soria
Political cinema, film subgenre that enjoyed international prestige during the 60s and 70s, has lost one of his most famous: Italian filmmaker Gillo Pontecorvo died on 12 October to the 87-year-old victim of a heart attack. Although his work is scarce, has always been especially noted for his human engagement with some of the major historical conflicts that occurred during the twentieth century.
Pontecorvo, born on November 19, 1919 in Pisa, was the pioneer in this popular subgenre film along the Neapolitan Francesco Rosi (Salvatore Giuliano , hands over the city ) and the Greco-Constantin Costa-French Gavras (Z , Missing ). After starting out as a documentary, debuted in the field of film with the sea Prisoner (1957), a story about the problems with the authorities of a fisherman who uses dynamite to catch its prey. His second film Kapo (1960), realistic and chilling story about the Nazi death camps, he was released to the public.
However, not until 1966 that Gillo Pontecorvo filmed his masterpiece: The Battle of Algiers . This famous film narrates the end of desconolozación of Algeria from November 1, 1954 until July 5, 1962, when the country finally gained independence from French rule. With a narrative style somewhere between fiction film and documentary chronicle, Pontecorvo did a thorough and sober recontrucción of the actions carried out the capital by the National Liberation Front.
In 1970, Pontecorvo hires the American actor Marlon Brando to star Queimada , another important colonial-themed film about a separatist rebellion that takes place on a Caribbean island submitted by the Portuguese government. His last film was solo Operation Ogre (1978), film work that recreates the famous attack on the Admiral Carrero Blanco, and that, in turn, offers one of the first testimonies filmed in Spain on the terrorist organization ETA.
With a filmography consists almost entirely of these five titles, and a few short films, "the late Gillo Pontecorvo has earned to be among the biggest names in the history of cinema because of its particular contribution to the landscape of political cinema.
Pontecorvo, born on November 19, 1919 in Pisa, was the pioneer in this popular subgenre film along the Neapolitan Francesco Rosi (Salvatore Giuliano , hands over the city ) and the Greco-Constantin Costa-French Gavras (Z , Missing ). After starting out as a documentary, debuted in the field of film with the sea Prisoner (1957), a story about the problems with the authorities of a fisherman who uses dynamite to catch its prey. His second film Kapo (1960), realistic and chilling story about the Nazi death camps, he was released to the public.
However, not until 1966 that Gillo Pontecorvo filmed his masterpiece: The Battle of Algiers . This famous film narrates the end of desconolozación of Algeria from November 1, 1954 until July 5, 1962, when the country finally gained independence from French rule. With a narrative style somewhere between fiction film and documentary chronicle, Pontecorvo did a thorough and sober recontrucción of the actions carried out the capital by the National Liberation Front. In 1970, Pontecorvo hires the American actor Marlon Brando to star Queimada , another important colonial-themed film about a separatist rebellion that takes place on a Caribbean island submitted by the Portuguese government. His last film was solo Operation Ogre (1978), film work that recreates the famous attack on the Admiral Carrero Blanco, and that, in turn, offers one of the first testimonies filmed in Spain on the terrorist organization ETA.
With a filmography consists almost entirely of these five titles, and a few short films, "the late Gillo Pontecorvo has earned to be among the biggest names in the history of cinema because of its particular contribution to the landscape of political cinema.
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