Panoramica con Terrazza fratelli Pontecorvo e Piazza Baleari dall'alto _ foto con drone (M. Boi, Comune di Pisa)
Piazza delle Baleari
Panoramica con Terrazza fratelli Pontecorvo e Piazza Baleari dall'alto _ foto con drone (M. Boi, Comune di Pisa)A spacious terrace overlooking the sea that opens on one side of Piazza delle Baleari. The terrace was named after two of the numerous Pontecorvo brothers: Bruno and Gilberto (known as Gillo), the former a famous scientist, and the latter an acclaimed director, screenwriter and actor.The artist brother:
Gilberto Pontecorvo, called Gillo (Pisa, 1919 - Rome 2006), director, screenwriter and actor. Following the racial laws, he moved to Paris where he met Picasso and Sartre... and began his career in film. Back in Italy he joined the Communist party and in the post-war period he acted in a work financed by ANPI (Il sole sorge ancora - Outcry, 1946). He then started to shoot documentaries with a social background (including Pane e zolfo, 1956, about the Marche miners). In 1957 he made his first feature film (La grande strada azzurra - The wide blue road) with Yves Montand and Terence Hill... but his best-known work was La battaglia di Algeri - The Battle of Algiers (1966) which won the Golden Lion at the International Film Festival of Venice. The film tells us how the Algerian people came to independence from France. In 1969 he describes the overwhelming colonialism in South America in the film Queimada, starring Marlon Brando; and in 1979 he addressed the theme of the Basque terrorism during the Francoism in the film Ogro with Gian Maria Volonté...
