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Gillo Pontecorvo

Gillo Pontecorvo

Directing
19 Nov 1919
12 Oct 2006
Pisa, Italy

Biography

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 physicist working for the USSR, and Guido Pontecorvo, an Italian-British geneticist, as well as the grandson of the Jewish industrialist Pellegrino Pontecorvo. He has three sons: Marco (cinematographer and director), Simone (painter) and Ludovico (physicist). A chemist by training, he quickly turned...

Also Known As

질로 폰테코르보, جيلو بونتيكورفو

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