Gillo Pontecorvo, the Italian film director famous for "The Battle of Algiers," a starkly realistic depiction of Algeria's war of independence from France, has died in Rome, aged 86.

"The Battle of Algiers," which Pontecorvo co-wrote and directed in 1966, won the Venice Film Festival's Golden Lion and was nominated for three Oscars: best director, best screenplay and best foreign language film.

The documentary-style black and white film showed brutality on both sides of the 1954-62 war, including bombings of civilians by militants and torture by the military, and was banned in France for several years.

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