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Gillo Pontecorvo, 86, Director of ‘Battle of Algiers,’ Dies by noteworthy at 8:52 am EDT, Oct 14, 2006 |
ROME, Oct. 13 — Gillo Pontecorvo, the Italian filmmaker who explored terrorism and torture in colonial Algeria in the powerful and influential 1965 classic, “The Battle of Algiers,” died here on Thursday. He was 86.
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