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Italian filmmaker, Gillo Pontecorvo (1919-2006), is best known for two great, award-winning films: 'The Battle of Algiers' (1966) and 'Burn!' (1969). Both deal with anti-colonial struggles, but are ambivalent about the tactics and results of those struggles. Pontecorvo left the PCI in 1956 and I think that both of these films present a Eurocommunist and pessimistic view of political struggle. For me, they ask whether democratic and socialist struggles will not always be subverted by the bad faith of leaders or masses. |
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