Gillo Pontecorvo
Gillo Pontecorvo, actually Gilberto Pontecorvo ( born November 19, 1919 in Pisa, † October 12, 2006 in Rome ) was an Italian film director.
Life and work
Gilberto Pontecorvo, whose brothers Bruno Pontecorvo and Guido Pontecorvo renowned scientists were first studied chemistry. After a stint as a journalist and political correspondent in Paris his film career began in 1951 as an assistant to director Yves Allégret. From 1953 he turned short documentaries before moving to Life in 1957 without grace with Yves Montand in the lead role, made his directorial debut. His greatest contribution to film history is the poignant war drama The Battle of Algiers of 1966, its realistic portrayal of historical events did it appear so authentic that many viewers thought the film for a documentary. The film received in 1966 the highest award Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. Pontecorvo in 1969 for this movie in the categories Best Director and Best Original Screenplay - the latter in association with Franco Solinas - Oscar nominiert.Zwei years later he sat with Queimada - Isle of Dread another exclamation point, but although the film with Marlon Brando in the attracted attention starring role, he was not nearly as famous and successful as its predecessor.
Pontecorvo's film Kapo acts in film theory since a text by Jacques Rivette as an example of film aesthetics, lacking a " moral of the setting ." In his famous film criticism " De l' abjection " Jacques Rivette was referring to the film Kapo (1960 ) Gillo Pontecorvo and formulated by his scathing criticism of the film from the aesthetic decisions that Pontecorvo has made: "Look, however, the setting of where Riva commits suicide by itself falls into the electrified barbed wire, the man of a Tracking decides forward at this moment to rekadrieren the carcass in supervision, whereby he can be be put to the raised hand in a to fix certain angle its final Kadrage, for these people, you can feel only the deepest contempt. "
Pontecorvo from 1992 to 1996 Head of the Film Festival in Venice.