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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 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Gillo Pontecorvo is the 257th most popular film director (up from 261st in 2019), the 1,489th most popular biography from Italy (up from 1,501st in 2019) and the 25th most popular Italian Film Director.

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  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.96

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.44

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Gillo Pontecorvo ranks 257 out of 1,581Before him are Karel Zeman, Edwin S. Porter, Hideaki Anno, Robert Wiene, Joe D'Amato, and Márta Mészáros. After him are Jean Epstein, Leonid Gaidai, Tex Avery, Zack Snyder, Franklin J. Schaffner, and Bigas Luna.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, Gillo Pontecorvo ranks 58Before him are Donald J. Cram, Teruo Nakamura, Ryszard Kaczorowski, Ian Smith, Mohamed Boudiaf, and Glafcos Clerides. After him are Mieczysław Weinberg, Ashraf Pahlavi, René Barrientos, Ernst Barkmann, Bob Paisley, and Valentino Mazzola. Among people deceased in 2006, Gillo Pontecorvo ranks 68Before him are Lillian Asplund, John Money, William Styron, Floyd Patterson, Murray Bookchin, and Reinhart Koselleck. After him are Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, Rudolf Vrba, Allen Carr, Hassan Gouled Aptidon, María Capovilla, and Aaron Spelling.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Gillo Pontecorvo ranks 1,489 out of 4,668Before him are Matthias Gallas (1584), Elisabetta Sirani (1638), Alessandro Magnasco (1667), Simon of Sicily (1093), Lea Massari (1933), and Francesco III d'Este, Duke of Modena (1698). After him are Paris Bordone (1500), Teresa Cristina of the Two Sicilies (1822), Marcus Terentius Varro Lucullus (-116), Maria Teresa de Filippis (1926), Gian Maria Visconti (1388), and Giuseppe Crespi (1665).

Among FILM DIRECTORS In Italy

Among film directors born in Italy, Gillo Pontecorvo ranks 25Before him are Liliana Cavani (1933), Mario Bava (1914), Marco Ferreri (1928), Lucio Fulci (1927), Mario Monicelli (1915), and Joe D'Amato (1936). After him are Damiano Damiani (1922), Ruggero Deodato (1939), Ermanno Olmi (1931), Giuseppe De Santis (1917), Paolo Sorrentino (1970), and Marco Bellocchio (1939).

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