FILM DIRECTOR

Gillo Pontecorvo

1919 - 2006

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Gilberto Pontecorvo Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI (Italian: [ˈdʒillo ponteˈkɔrvo]; 19 November 1919 – 12 October 2006) was an Italian filmmaker associated with the political cinema movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gillo Pontecorvo has received more than 298,831 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Gillo Pontecorvo is the 177th most popular film director (up from 257th in 2019), the 1,144th most popular biography from Italy (up from 1,485th in 2019) and the 16th most popular Italian Film Director.

Memorability Metrics

  • 300k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 61.64

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.22

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.20

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Gillo Pontecorvos by language

Over the past year Gillo Pontecorvo has had the most page views in the with 42,637 views, followed by Italian (33,226), and French (13,341). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Belarusian (246.55%), Egyptian Arabic (151.05%), and Polish (116.60%)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Gillo Pontecorvo ranks 177 out of 2,041. Before him are Guillermo del Toro, Roy Andersson, Genndy Tartakovsky, Nagisa Oshima, Jacques Rivette, and Gordon Parks. After him are Jerzy Skolimowski, Don Siegel, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Francesco Rosi, Blake Edwards, and Theo van Gogh.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, Gillo Pontecorvo ranks 39. Before him are Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado, César Manrique, James M. Buchanan, James Lovelock, Mordechai Anielewicz, and Jennifer Jones. After him are Jackie Robinson, Pete Seeger, Georges Duby, Charles Sweeney, Abdel Hakim Amer, and Godfrey Hounsfield. Among people deceased in 2006, Gillo Pontecorvo ranks 52. Before him are Claude Jade, Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, Steve Irwin, Gordon Parks, William Styron, and Shelley Winters. After him are Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Romano Mussolini, Mariska Veres, Karel Appel, Ta Mok, and Robert Bruce Merrifield.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Gillo Pontecorvo ranks 1,144 out of 5,161. Before him are Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta (1417), William III of Sicily (1185), Francesco Albani (1578), Vladimir Bartol (1903), Ivanoe Bonomi (1873), and Carlo Ginzburg (1939). After him are Carlo Rubbia (1934), Constantina (325), Francesco Geminiani (1687), Constantius Gallus (325), Erasmo of Narni (1370), and Bianca Cappello (1548).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Italy

Among film directors born in Italy, Gillo Pontecorvo ranks 16. Before him are Frank Capra (1897), Franco Zeffirelli (1923), Dario Argento (1940), Giuseppe Tornatore (1956), Ettore Scola (1931), and Sergio Corbucci (1926). After him are Francesco Rosi (1922), Dino Risi (1916), Marco Bellocchio (1939), Lina Wertmüller (1928), Joe D'Amato (1936), and Liliana Cavani (1933).

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Filmography

The Battle of Algiers
Director
Tracing the struggle of the Algerian Front de Liberation Nationale to gain freedom from French colonial rule as seen through the eyes of Ali from his start as a petty thief to his rise to prominence in the organisation and capture by the French in 1957. The film traces the rebels' struggle and the increasingly extreme measures taken by the French government to quell the revolt.
Sep 8o 19667.9 / 10
Burn!
Director
The professional mercenary Sir William Walker instigates a slave revolt on the Caribbean island of Queimada in order to help improve the British sugar trade. Years later he is sent again to deal with the same rebels that he built up because they have seized too much power that now threatens British sugar interests.
Dec 21o 19696.7 / 10
Kapo
Director
Determined to survive at any price, Edith, a young Jewish woman deported to an extermination camp, manages to survive by accepting the role of kapo, a privileged prisoner whose mission is to ruthlessly guard other prisoners.
Sep 27o 19606.9 / 10