Which classic 1966 film by Gillo Pontecorvo was shown in the Pentagon in 2003 with the flyer reading as follows? How to win a battle against terrorism and lose the war of ideas. Children shoot soldiers at point-blank range. Women plant bombs in cafes. Soon the entire Arab population builds to a mad fervor. Sound familiar? The French have a plan. It succeeds tactically, but fails strategically. To understand why, come to a rare showing of this film.
Gillo Pontecorvo be able to give it his all. In 2006, he died from congestive heart failure in Rome at age 86. Gillo Pontecorvo Gillo Pontecorvo (; 19 November 1919 – 12 October 2006) was an Italian filmmaker. He worked as a film director for more than a decade before his best known film "La battaglia di Algeri" ("The Battle of Algiers", 1966) was released. It won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1966. His other films include "Kapò" (1960), which takes place in a World War II concentration camp, and "Burn!" ("Queimada", 1969), starring Marlon Brando and loosely
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