Gillo Pontecorvo

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Gillo Pontecorvo, filmmaker, (November 19, 1919 - October 12, 2006) "Emotions are the most communicable goods in the world; if a director is touched by the expressive, the aesthetic or moral content of a story, it is probable that he'll communicate this to the public. What's dangerous is that the public, accustomed to the vulgarity and the triviality of the television, do not any more consider as his belongings what the higher language of true cinema can be." From "Homo Cinematographicus" (1998)...