The director Gillo Pontecorvo is dead, 86 years old. R.I.P.He was above all famous for his film La battaglia di Algeri, telling the story about the struggle for independence in Algeria made in 1966.
This film is unusually unbiased showing the cruelties and assaults from both sides, the French and the Algerians. By most cinephiles regarded as a 'classic' (this hard to define word) within the war film genre.
(Photo Gillo Pontecorvo take from: http://www.gossipnews.it/images5/ponteco2.jpg)
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