Gillo Pontecorvo. Una battaglia dopo l’altra

Twenty years after the death of Gillo Pontecorvo, and sixty years after The Battle of Algiers was awarded the Golden Lion, the National Museum of Cinema is devoting an exclusive exhibition to the great director, born from the enhancement of the Gillo Pontecorvo Archive, donated by the family to the Museum and today among the most important documentary collections dedicated to an author of Italian cinema. From this extraordinary heritage takes shape Gillo Pontecorvo. Una battaglia dopo l'altra, curated by Mauro Genovese and Caterina Massignani: a path that invites the public to enter the creative, intellectual and civic laboratory of the director. Through an archive of exceptional completeness, the exhibition traces the different seasons of his activity and his life: from the years of the Resistance to his journalistic experience, from the genesis and making of his cinematic masterpieces to the projects and