Marco Pontecorvo (Director)

Little is known about Marco Pontecorvo, a figure with a modest footprint in Director. Stay tuned for updates as more details become available.

Works

Giuliano Montaldo - Quattro volte vent'anni

Release Date2012-11-10

Charactersd Self

Game of Thrones

Seven noble families fight for control of the mythical land of Westeros. Friction between the houses leads to full-scale war. All while a very ancient evil awakens in the farthest north. Amidst the war, a neglected military order of misfits, the Night's Watch, is all that stands between the realms of men and icy horrors beyond.

Release Date2011-04-17

DepartmentCamera

JobDirector of Photography

Episode Count3

Vote Count25228

One Thousand and One Nights

Shahrazad travels through desert searching for the man she loves and who she believes she has lost forever. She arrives at a castle, the home of a prince who kills anyone who dares enter. She convinces the prince to grant her one night to tell him a story, their story, a story that lasts one thousand and one nights...

Release Date2012-11-26

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count2

Vote Count14

Alfredino - An italian story

The fiction retraces the Vermicino incident, a famous crime story from 1981 in which a six-year-old boy, Alfredo Rampi, died three days after accidentally falling into an artesian well. The story had a notable impact on the press and on Italian public opinion.

Release Date2021-06-21

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count4

Vote Count11

Per Elisa: An Italian Crime Story

Reconstruction of one of the most shocking crime news events in recent decades: the murders of Elisa Claps and Heather Barnett by Danilo Restivo. The story begins on 12 September 1993 and takes place over a period of about twenty years between Potenza and the English coast of Bournemouth.

Release Date2023-10-24

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count6

Vote Count54

Letters to Juliet

An American girl on vacation in Italy finds an unanswered "letter to Juliet" -- one of thousands of missives left at the fictional lover's Verona courtyard, which are typically answered by the "secretaries of Juliet" -- and she goes on a quest to find the lovers referenced in the letter.

Release Date2010-05-13

DepartmentCamera

JobDirector of Photography

Vote Count2916

The Last Legion

As the Roman empire crumbles, young Romulus Augustus flees the city and embarks on a perilous voyage to Britain to track down a legion of supporters.

Release Date2007-04-19

DepartmentCamera

JobDirector of Photography

Vote Count810

Lampedusa - Dall'orizzonte in poi

Lampedusa - Dall'orizzonte in poi

Release Date2016-09-20

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count2

Firewall

State-of-the-art security system creator Jack Stanfield has cemented his reputation as a man who's thought of everything. But when a criminal finds a way into his personal life, everything Jack holds dear is suddenly at stake.

Release Date2006-02-08

DepartmentCamera

JobDirector of Photography

Vote Count972

My One and Only

A mother takes her two sons on an unusual road trip from New York to Pittsburgh, St. Louis and eventually Hollywood in her quest to find a man to take care of them all.

Release Date2009-08-21

DepartmentCamera

JobDirector of Photography

Vote Count155

Fading Gigolo

Fioravante decides to become a professional Don Juan as a way of making money to help his cash-strapped friend, Murray. With Murray acting as his "manager", the duo quickly finds themselves caught up in the crosscurrents of love and money.

Release Date2013-09-07

DepartmentCamera

JobDirector of Photography

Vote Count592

Fatima

In 1917, outside the parish of Fátima, Portugal, a 10-year-old girl and her two younger cousins witness multiple visitations of the Virgin Mary, who tells them that only prayer and suffering will bring an end to World War I. As secularist government officials and Church leaders try to force the children to recant their story, word of the sighting spreads across the country, inspiring religious pilgrims to flock to the site in hopes of witnessing a miracle..

Release Date2020-08-13

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count188

Eros

A three-part anthology about love and sexuality: a menage-a-trois between a couple and a young woman on the coast of Tuscany; an advertising executive under enormous pressure at work, who, during visits to his psychiatrist, is pulled to delve into the possible reasons why his stress seems to manifest itself in a recurring erotic dream; a story of unrequited love about a beautiful, 1960s high-end call girl in an impossible affair with her young tailor.

Release Date2004-12-03

DepartmentCamera

JobDirector of Photography

Vote Count132

A Month by the Lake

For 16 years Miss Bentley has been spending April at an elegant hillside villa on Lake Como. This year, 1937, her London society artist father has recently died and the only other English-speaking guests are brash Americans. Then Major Wilshaw arrives. He suggests they meet for cocktails and Miss Bentley stands him up -- not even thinking about it -- as she helps the new nanny of an Italian family settle in. Miss Beaumont, a tall, young American who has dropped out of finishing school in Switzerland, is bored and finds some amusement in flirting with the major, whose libido is awakened for the first time since before the great war. And Miss Bentley now finds more about the major to admire than his ears.

Release Date1995-09-11

DepartmentCamera

JobCamera Operator

Vote Count39

The Truce

After the liberation of Auschwitz, an Italian prisoner of War begins a torturous voyage home to Turin, through a Europe caught between war and peace.

Release Date1997-02-14

DepartmentCamera

JobCamera Operator

Vote Count75

Chronicle of a Death Foretold

This suspenseful Italian crime drama is set in a Colombian river town and chronicles the series of events that led up to murder. Based on a novel by distinguished author Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the tale begins in the present as a middle-aged doctor returns to the village after a twenty-year absence to investigate the murder that occurred just before he left.

Release Date1987-05-08

DepartmentCamera

JobAssistant Camera

Vote Count80

My House in Umbria

Emily Delahunty is an eccentric British romance novelist who lives in Umbria in central Italy. One day while travelling, the train she is on is bombed by terrorists. After she wakes up in a hospital, she invites three of the other survivors of the disaster to stay at her Italian villa for recuperation. Of these are The General, a retired British Army veteran, Werner, a young German man, and Aimee, a young American girl who has now become mute after her parents were both killed in the explosion.

Release Date2003-05-25

DepartmentCrew

JobCinematography

Vote Count34

Honeymoon Trips

The vicissitudes of three couples of newlyweds from the celebration of weddings to their respective honeymoons.

Release Date1995-12-15

DepartmentCamera

JobCamera Operator

Vote Count497

Sempre al tuo fianco

Release Date2024-09-15

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count12

Vote Count2

Cellar Dweller

In the 1950s, a horror-comic artist's creations come alive and kill him. Years later a new cartoonist revives the creatures in his house, now part of an artist's colony.

Release Date1988-09-20

DepartmentCamera

JobClapper Loader

Vote Count81

Ragion di Stato

Andrea Rosso, an agent of Italian foreign intelligence service AISE, undertakes risky missions in Afghanistan and Lebanon.

Release Date2015-01-12

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count2

Vote Count1

12 Directors for 12 Cities

Promotional omnibus film, made for the 1990 FIFA World Cup in Italy, featuring portraits of 12 Italian cities.

Release Date1989-05-22

DepartmentCamera

JobAssistant Camera

Vote Count7

Never for Love

Never for Love

Release Date2012-03-27

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count2

Partly Cloudy with Sunny Spells

Two friends, founders of a cooperative that produce couches and that it is found in a situation of bankruptcy, a night, while they are digging for hiding some stems that it would cost too much to digest, they discover some oil. This will make contradictions and conflicts explode among the two.

Release Date2015-04-02

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count34

The Palermo Connection

Carmine Bonavia wins election as the mayor of New York on a promise to legalize drugs. After the election, he marries Carrie and goes to his ancestral home of Sicily for their honeymoon. In his hotel, he meets Il Principe, a Sicilian prince who has spent years confined to the hotel because he crossed the Mafia. Amid the beauties of Sicily Carmine discovers that men of power will stop at nothing to prevent the legalization of drugs, which threatens their business.

Release Date1990-02-02

DepartmentCamera

JobAssistant Camera

Vote Count26

A muso duro - Campioni di vita

Release Date2022-05-16

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count8

Passione

Songs and singers from Naples, musicians and poets, real and legendary characters are the protagonists of a film that crosses one of the most beautiful, famous and controversial metropolises in the world. An exceptional orchestra for a repertoire that speaks of love, sex, jealousy, immigration, protest.

Release Date2010-09-04

DepartmentCamera

JobDirector of Photography

Vote Count15

Rehearsal for a Sicilian Tragedy

John Turturro goes back to the land of his ancestors.

Release Date2009-09-05

DepartmentCrew

JobCinematography

Pa-ra-da

The film tells the true story of French clown Miloud Oukili from his arrival in Romania in 1992 (three years after the fall of Ceausescu) to his encounter with the street children of Bucharest, known as «boskettari» who live in the streets and sleep in Bucharest's sewers, eking a living out of petty crime, begging, and prostitution.

Release Date2008-08-28

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenstory

Vote Count19

L'oro di Scampia

In a neighborhood overrun by crime, Enzo opens a judo school to help at-risk teens onto a different path and guide his son toward Olympic gold.

Release Date2014-02-10

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count19

Croce e Delizia

An Italian troupe is busy in Paris filming an adaptation of La Traviata. The dressmaker Rosa, in love with the lead actor, identifies herself with Violetta: thanks to a bad joke and a fake séance, Rosa begins to believe she is her reincarnation. From that moment on, she tries to discover everything she can about her previous life, which slowly becomes closer and closer to her real one.

Release Date1995-10-06

DepartmentCamera

JobCamera Operator

Vote Count2

Neapolitan Diary

A screening of the 30 year old Hands Over The City at the School of Architecture in Naples is the occasion for a debate among youth, historians, politicos, industrialists, environmentalists.

Release Date1992-06-06

DepartmentCamera

JobCamera Operator

Vote Count8

In barca a vela contromano

Release Date1997-09-27

DepartmentCamera

JobDirector of Photography

Vote Count12

Il coraggio di vincere

Release Date2017-04-07

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count1

The Guest

Giulia works for her father's law film and still lives in her parents' luxurious home. However, she soon realizes the young man from Thailand who is their new houseguest is not just a family friend -- he is Guilia's mother's lover, and almost half her age. Father, however, has an even bigger secret -- he's been having an affair with a man young enough to be his son.

Release Date1999-06-04

DepartmentCrew

JobCinematography

Fuochino

A Donatello award nominated short feature about a slight incident that introduces a man and a woman in a quiet cafe.

Release Date1998-01-01

DepartmentCrew

JobCinematography

Vote Count1

Sulla spiaggia e di là dal molo

Release Date2000-01-01

DepartmentCamera

JobDirector of Photography

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