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Pier Paolo Pasolini is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter, Editor, Sound and Supervising Technical Director Italien born on 5 march 1922 at Bologna (Italie)

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Pier Paolo Pasolini
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Nationality Italie
Birth 5 march 1922 at Bologna (Italie)
Death 2 november 1975 (at 53 years) at Rome (Italie)

Pier Paolo Pasolini ([ˈpjɛr ˈpaːolo pazoˈliːni]; 5 March 1922 – 2 November 1975) was an Italian film director, poet, writer and intellectual. Pasolini distinguished himself as a poet, journalist, philosopher, novelist, playwright, filmmaker, newspaper and magazine columnist, actor, painter and political figure. He had a unique and extraordinary cultural versatility, becoming a highly controversial figure in the process. While his work remains controversial to this day, in the years since his death Pasolini has come to be valued by many as a prophetic intellectual and a major figure in Italian literature and cinematic arts.

Biography

Early life
Pasolini was born in Bologna, traditionally one of the most leftist politically of Italian cities. He was the son of Carlo Alberto, a lieutenant of the Italian army, and Susanna Colussi, an elementary school teacher. His parents married in 1921, Pasolini was born in 1922 and named after his paternal uncle. His family moved to Conegliano in 1923 and, two years later, to Belluno, where another son, Guidalberto, was born. In 1926, Pasolini's father was arrested for gambling debts. His mother moved with the children to her family's house in Casarsa della Delizia, in the Friuli region. That same year, his father Carlo Alberto Pasolini, first detained and then identified Anteo Zamboni as the would-be assassin of Benito Mussolini following his assassination attempt. At any rate, Carlo Alberto was persuaded of the virtues of fascism.

Pasolini began writing poems at the age of seven, inspired by the natural beauty of Casarsa. One of his early influences was the work of Arthur Rimbaud. In 1931, his father was transferred to Idria in the Julian March (now Idrija in Slovenia); in 1933 they moved again to Cremona in Lombardy, and later to Scandiano and Reggio Emilia. Pasolini found it difficult to adapt to all these moves, though in the meantime he enlarged his poetry and literature readings (Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Shakespeare, Coleridge, Novalis) and left behind the religious fervour of his early years. In the Reggio Emilia high school, he met his first true friend, Luciano Serra. The two met again in Bologna, where Pasolini spent seven years while completing high school: here he cultivated new passions, including football. With other friends, including Ermes Parini, Franco Farolfi, Elio Meli, he formed a group dedicated to literary discussions.

In 1939 Pasolini graduated and entered the Literature College of the University of Bologna, discovering new themes such as philology and aesthetics of figurative arts. He also frequented the local cinema club. Pasolini always showed his friends a virile and strong exterior, totally hiding his interior travail. He took part in the Fascist government's culture and sports competitions. In 1941, together with Francesco Leonetti, Roberto Roversi and others, he tried to publish a poetry magazine, but the attempt failed due to paper shortages. In his poems of this period, Pasolini started to include fragments in Friulan, a language he didn't speak but learned after he'd begun to write poetry in it. "I learnt it as a sort of mystic act of love, a kind of félibrisme, like the Provençal poets."


Early poetry

After the summer in Casarsa, in 1941 Pasolini published at his own expense a collection of poems in Friulan, Versi a Casarsa. The work was noted and appreciated by intellectuals and critics such as Gianfranco Contini, Alfonso Gatto and Antonio Russi. His pictures had also been well received. Pasolini was chief editor of the Il Setaccio ("The Sieve") magazine, but was fired after conflicts with the director, who was aligned with the Fascist regime. A trip to Germany helped him also to perceive the "provincial" status of Italian culture in that era. These experiences led Pasolini to rethink his opinion about the cultural politics of Fascism and to switch gradually to a Communist position.

In 1942, the family took shelter in Casarsa, considered a more tranquil place to wait for the conclusion of the World War II, a decision common among Italian military families. Here, for the first time, Pasolini had to face the erotic disquiet he had suppressed during his adolescent years. He wrote: "A continuous perturbation without images or words beats at my temples and obscures me".

In the weeks before 8 September armistice, Pasolini was drafted. He was captured and imprisoned by the German Wehrmacht. He managed to escape disguised as a peasant, and found his way to Casarsa. Here he joined a group of other young fans of the Friulan language who wanted to give Casarsa Friulan a status equal to that of Udine, the official regional standard. From May 1944 they issued a magazine entitled Stroligùt di cà da l'aga. In the meantime, Casarsa suffered Allied bombardments and forced enrollments by the Italian Social Republic, as well as partisan activity.

Pasolini tried to remain apart from these events. He, his mother and other colleagues of his taught students unable to reach the schools in Pordenone or Udine starting in October 1943. Others were involved too, but this educational workshop was considered illegal, and broke up in February 1944. He had his first experience of gay love for one of his students. His brother Guido, 19 years old, went on to join the Party of Action and their Osoppo-Friuli Brigade, taking to the bush, near Slovenia. On 12 February 1945 his brother Guido was killed in an ambush planted by Italian Garibaldine partysans serving in the lines of Tito's Yugoslavian guerrillas. The fatal event turned into a harrowing tragedy for mother and son.

Six days later Pasolini and others founded the Friulan Language Academy (Academiuta di lenga furlana). Meanwhile, Pasolini's father Carlo Alberto was allowed to Italy from his Kenya's detention period in November 1945 on account of Guido's death. He settled down in Casarsa, Susanna's home town. Also in November, Pier Paolo Pasolini graduated after completing a final thesis about Giovanni Pascoli's works.

In 1946 Pasolini published a small poetry collection, I Diarii ("The Diaries"), with the Academiuta. In October he traveled to Rome. The following May he began the so-called Quaderni Rossi, handwritten in old school exercise books with red covers. He completed a drama in Italian, Il Cappellano. His poetry collection, I Pianti ("The cries"), was also published by the Academiuta.


Relationship with the Italian Communist Party

On 30 October 1945, Pasolini joined the pro-devolution association Patrie tal Friul, founded in Udine. The political status of the region became a matter of contention between different political factions. Pasolini wanted a Friuli based on its tradition, attached to its Christianity, but intent on civic and social progress, as opposed to those autonomists who wanted to preserve their privileges based on "immobilism". He also criticized the Communist Party for their opposition to devolution, and their bet on Italian centralism. He founded the party Movimiento Popolare Friulano, but ended up quitting it, persuaded that it had come to be controlled and used by the Christian-Democrat Party in order to counter the Yugoslavians, who in turn were attempting to annex large swaths of the Friuli.

On 26 January 1947 Pasolini wrote a declaration for the front page of the newspaper Libertà: "In our opinion, we think that currently only Communism is able to provide a new culture." It generated controversy partly due to the fact he was still not a member of the Italian Communist Party (PCI).



He was planning to extend the work of the Academiuta to other Romance language literatures and met the exiled Catalan poet, Carles Cardó. After joining the PCI, Pasolini took part in several demonstrations. In May 1949, Pasolini attended the Peace Congress in Paris. Observing the struggles of workers and peasants, and watching the clashes of protesters with Italian police, he began to conceive his first novel. The pope Pius XII excommunicated any communist sympathizers from Church. During this period, while holding a position as a teacher in a Secondary School, Pasolini stood out in the local Communist Party section as a skillful writer defying the notion of communism as contrary to Christian values.

The local Christian-Democrats took notice. In the summer of 1949, Pasolini was blackmailed by a priest, "either leave politics, or his school career will be ruined," an intermediary went. Similarly, after some posters were put in the loggia of San Giovanni, Giambattista Caron, a Christian-Democrat deputy, warned Nico Naldini that his cousin Pasolini "should abandon communist propaganda" to prevent "pernicious reactions".

A small scandal broke out during a local festival in Ramuscello (September 1949). "A public voice", someone who overheard comments, informed Cordovado, the local sergeant of the carabinieri, on sexual conduct (masturbation) shown by Pasolini with three youngsters aged 16 and younger after dancing and drinking. Cordovado went on to summon the boys' parents, who hesitated, but did not file any lawsuit, despite Cordovado's enthusiasm. However, the sergeant drew up a report, and the informer elaborated publicly on his accusations, sparking a public uproar. The judge of San Vito al Tagliamento charged Pasolini with "corruption of minors and obscene acts in public places" Not only him, but the 16 year-old involved was also indicted.

In October 1949, when called to declare in the police station, he would not deny the basic fact, for which he talked of a "literary and erotic drive", and cited André Gide, the 1947 literature Noble prize. Regardless, Cordovado informed also his superiors, and the regional press stepped in. The headlines were shouted in the streets by the news vendors. According to Pasolini, the whole affair was prepared by the Christian-Democrats with a view to smearing his name ("the Christian-Democrats pulled the strings"), and came to be fired from his job position in Valvasone.



Not only that, he was expelled from the Communist Party by the party's Udine section, for which he felt stabbed on the back. He addressed a critical letter to the head of the section (and friend) Carlino, and claimed he was being subject to a "tacticism" of the Communist Party. In the party, the expulsion was opposed by Teresa Degan, Pasolini's colleague in education. She also was addressed a letter by Pasolini, where he showed his regret about himself for being "such a naive, even indecently so". His father broke out in desperate shouts, yelled at his mother Susana, who in turn locked herself in her bedroom ("she was about to go nuts"). The situation in the family was also untenable.

Struggling in an extremely difficult situation, in January 1950 Pasolini moved to Rome with his mother Susanna to start a new life from scratch. He was acquitted of both charges in 1950 and 1952. "I came to Rome from the Friulan countryside. Unemployed for many years; ignored by everybody; driven by the fear to be not as life needed to be". Instead of asking for help from other writers, Pasolini preferred to go his own way. In these years Pasolini transferred his Friulan countryside inspiration to Rome's suburbs, the infamous borgate where poor proletarian immigrants lived in often horrendous sanitary and social conditions. After one year sheltered in a maternal uncle's flat next to Piazza Mattei, Pasolini and his 59-year-old mother moved out to a run-down suburb called Rebibbia, next to a prison (a period briefly described in a 1966 documentary). Mother and son settled down there for 3 years.

He found a job as a worker in the Cinecittà studios and sold his books in the 'bancarelle' ("sidewalk shops") of Rome. In 1951, through the help of the Abruzzese-language poet Vittorio Clemente, he found a job as a teacher at a secondary school in Ciampino, a suburb of the capital, a long commute involving two train changes, in exchange of a meagre paycheck of 27,000 liras of the time.


Success and charges

In 1954, Pasolini, who now worked for the literary section of Italian state radio, left his teaching job and moved to the Monteverde quarter. At this point, his cousin Grazziela moved in. They also accommodated Pasolini's ailing, cirrhotic father Carlo Alberto, an alcoholic (died in 1958). Pasolini published La meglio gioventù, his first important collection of dialect poems. His first novel, Ragazzi di vita (English: Hustlers), was published in 1955. The work had great success but was poorly received by the PCI establishment and, most importantly, by the Italian government. It initiated a lawsuit for "obscenity" against Pasolini and his editor, Garzanti. Though totally exonerated of any charge, Pasolini became a victim of insinuations, especially by the tabloid press.

In 1957, together with Sergio Citti, Pasolini collaborated on Federico Fellini's film Le notti di Cabiria, writing dialogue for the Roman dialect parts. He also co-wrote the dialogues of Fellini's La dolce vita. In 1960 he made his debut as an actor in Il gobbo, and co-wrote Long Night in 1943. Along with Ragazzi di vita, he had his celebrated poetry work Le ceneri di Gramsci published, where Pasolini voiced tormented tensions between reason and heart, as well as the existing ideological dialectics within communism, a debate over artistic freedom, Socialist realism and commitment.

His first film as director and screenwriter is Accattone of 1961, again set in Rome's marginal quarters. The movie aroused controversy and scandal. In 1963, the episode "La ricotta", included in the collective movie RoGoPaG, was censored and Pasolini was tried for offense to the Italian state and religion.

During this period Pasolini frequently traveled abroad: in 1961, with Elsa Morante and Alberto Moravia to India (where he went again seven years later); in 1962 to Sudan and Kenya; in 1963, to Ghana, Nigeria, Guinea, Jordan and Israel (where he shot the documentary, Sopralluoghi in Palestina). In 1970 he travelled again to Africa to shoot the documentary, Appunti per un'Orestiade africana.

In 1966 he was a member of the jury at the 16th Berlin International Film Festival.

In 1967, in Venice, he met and interviewed the American poet Ezra Pound. They discussed the Italian movement neoavanguardia, arts in general and Pasolini read some verses from the Italian version of Pound's Pisan Cantos.

The late 1960s and early 1970s were the era of the so-called "student movement". Pasolini, though acknowledging the students' ideological motivations, thought them "anthropologically middle-class" and therefore destined to fail in their attempts at revolutionary change. Regarding the Battle of Valle Giulia, which took place in Rome in March 1968, he said that he sympathized with the police, as they were "children of the poor", while the young militants were exponents of what he called "left-wing fascism". His film of that year, Teorema, was shown at the annual Venice Film Festival in a hot political climate. Pasolini had proclaimed that the Festival would be managed by the directors (see also Works section).

In 1970 Pasolini bought an old castle near Viterbo, several miles north of Rome, where he began to write his last novel, Il Petrolio, where he denounced obscure dealing on the highest spheres of government and the corporate world (the ENI, CIA, the mafia, etc.). The novel-documentary could not be completed due to his death. In 1972 he started to collaborate with the extreme-left association Lotta Continua, producing a documentary, 12 dicembre, concerning the Piazza Fontana bombing. The following year he began a collaboration for Italy's most renowned newspaper, Il Corriere della Sera.

At the beginning of 1975 Garzanti published a collection of critical essays, Scritti corsari ("Corsair Writings").


Murder

A Carabinieri squad car stopped a speeding Alfa Romeo near Rome. The driver, Giuseppe (Pino) Pelosi, a 17-year-old hustler, tried to run but was arrested for theft of the car, which was Pasolini's. Two hours later, the director's body was discovered. Pasolini was murdered by being run over several times with his own car, dying on November 2, 1975 on the beach at Ostia. Multiple bones had been broken and his testicles crushed by what appeared to be a metal bar. His body had been partially burned, the autopsy report revealed, by gasoline after the point of death. It has long been considered to have been a mafia-style revenge killing, extremely unlikely for one person to have carried out. Pasolini was buried in Casarsa, in his beloved Friuli. Pelosi confessed: Pasolini had picked him up and they ate a meal at a restaurant the director knew, the Biondo Tevere near St Paul's basilica, where he was known. Pino ate spaghetti with oil and garlic, Pasolini drank a beer. At 11.30 pm they drove towards Ostia, where Pasolini "asked something I did not want" – to sodomise the boy with a wooden stick. Pelosi refused, Pasolini struck; Pelosi ran, picked up two pieces of a table, seized the stick and battered Pasolini to death. As he escaped in the car, he ran over what he thought was a bump in the road. "I killed Pasolini," he told his cellmate, and the police. Pelosi was convicted in 1976, with "unknown others".

Twenty-nine years later, on 7 May 2005, he retracted his confession, which he said was made under the threat of violence to his family. He claimed that three people "with a southern accent" had committed the murder, insulting Pasolini as a "dirty communist".

Other evidence uncovered in 2005 pointed to Pasolini having been murdered by an extortionist. Testimony by Pasolini's friend Sergio Citti indicated that some of the rolls of film from Salò had been stolen, and that Pasolini had been going to meet with the thieves after a visit to Stockholm, 2 November 1975. Despite the Roman police's reopening of the murder case following Pelosi's statement of May 2005, the judges charged with investigating it determined the new elements insufficient for them to continue the inquiry.

Best films

La Dolce Vita (1960)
(Ecrivain)
Nights of Cabiria (1957)
(Co-écrivain)
The Canterbury Tales (1972)
(Actor)
Woman of the River (1954)
(Concepteur de dialogues)
Arabian Nights (1974)
(Director)

Usually with

Sergio Citti
Sergio Citti
(19 films)
Nino Baragli
Nino Baragli
(27 films)
Ninetto Davoli
Ninetto Davoli
(18 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Pier Paolo Pasolini (47 films)

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Actor

Who Killed Pasolini?, 1h40
Directed by Marco Tullio Giordana
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Giulio Scarpati, Toni Bertorelli, Antonello Fassari, Claudio Bigagli, Nicoletta Braschi, Biagio Pelligra
Rating68% 3.4290353.4290353.4290353.4290353.429035
The film traces the last hours of the life of poet and film director Pier Paolo Pasolini. The poet is killed at night in 1975 on the beach at Ostia, near Rome. A boy is arrested: Pino Pelosi, and charged with murder. The police and judges believe that Pelosi is the only murderer of Pasolini, but his injuries on the body of the poet are too severe and profound. Then are called to bear witness to the death of the poet his sister and his mother, destroyed by grief. As the process unfolds, the film examines the personality of Pasolini, and his works and, above all explains what people think of him in Italy. Pasolini according to some Italians was a provocative man: he deserved what he suffered, having been a Communist and a homosexual. Instead, his friends and intellectuals remember him as a very good and sensible man, who sought only to fight against neo-fascism and the cruel and bigoted mentality of middle-class society.
Notes Towards an African Orestes, 1h5
Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini
Origin Italie
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about films, Films based on mythology, Documentary films about business, Documentary films about the film industry, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Films based on Greco-Roman mythology, Documentary films about films, Autobiographical documentary films, Films based on Greco-Roman mythology
Actors Gato Barbieri, Pier Paolo Pasolini
Roles Self (uncredited)
Rating66% 3.3492953.3492953.3492953.3492953.349295
En 1969, Pasolini voyage à travers la Tanzanie et l’Ouganda à la recherche des décors et des personnages de son prochain film : une adaptation de L'Orestie" d’Eschyle dans l’Afrique contemporaine. Il commente à voix haute, interroge les visages, les paysages, les situations et lit de larges et significatifs passages d’Eschyle. Il confronte ses idées, ses notes de voyage avec un groupe d’étudiants africains installés à l’université de Rome. Le film ne verra jamais le jour, mais ces notes filmées (et montées) par le cinéaste offrent une médiation sur l’indépendance, les promesses de la démocratie et le passage de l’âge archaïque à la civilisation moderne.
The Canterbury Tales, 1h58
Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Erotic, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Fantasy
Themes Poésie, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, LGBT-related films, Adaptation d'un poème, LGBT-related film
Actors Franco Citti, Ninetto Davoli, Laura Betti, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Hugh Griffith, Alan Webb
Roles Geoffrey Chaucer
Rating63% 3.1985053.1985053.1985053.1985053.198505
Near London, Oxford and Canterbury in the Middle Ages, stories and adventures of peasants, noblemen, clergy and demons are interwoven. In the first vignette of the film, the merchant Sir January loses his sight, allowing the bride to join with her young lover in secret. In the second story, the Devil ensures that two young peasants are killed by the arm of the Inquisition for their libertine pleasures. In the third, the fool Perkin is involved in an intrigue; he tries to find work, but his attempts ultimately wreak havoc in the city of Oxford. In the fourth story of two youths, Nicolas and Alison, seduce the wife of a carpenter, and when in danger of being caught, they pretend to be two visionaries who predicted the arrival of the new Flood. In the fifth, in the village of Bath, a matron marries Giannozzo; however, their happiness is short-lived. In the sixth story in Cambridge, two students spend fabulous nights with Molly, the wife of a miller. One night Molly, waiting to make love with each of the two boys, goes to bed believing that she is conversing with one of the youths, disclosing their secret. In fact, the one who is on the bed is the consort! In the seventh story three students, cruel in their actions, are achieved by an old man who predicts them to a bad end. Young guys do not get scared, but when the three ingest a poisoned wine, soon find themselves in the company of Gloomy Grim Reaper. In the eighth and final story, a pleasure-loving monk is trying to earn as much food in exchange for extreme unction to a dying man. That same night in the man's convent comes an angel, which leads him to Hell, to show him the terrible punishments that belong to the friars that subvert the message of Christ.
The Decameron, 1h52
Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini, Sergio Citti
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Fantasy, Historical
Themes Seafaring films, Films about sexuality, Transport films, Erotic films, LGBT-related films, Films about prostitution, Erotic thriller films, LGBT-related film
Actors Franco Citti, Silvana Mangano, Ninetto Davoli, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Angela Luce, Guido Alberti
Roles Allievo di Giotto
Rating69% 3.499013.499013.499013.499013.49901
The film, shot in Neapolitan dialect at the behest of the director, offers a variety of episodes from the stories most characteristic work of Giovanni Boccaccio, and are connected by the sequence of a pupil of the painter Giotto (played by Pasolini himself) who arrives in Naples to paint a mural.
Notes for a Film in India
Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini
Genres Documentary
Themes Documentaire sur une personnalité
Actors Khwaja Ahmad Abbas, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Rajinder Singh Bedi
Roles Self
Rating70% 3.5217953.5217953.5217953.5217953.521795
En Inde, Pasolini pose la question : « Donneriez-vous votre corps pour nourrir des tigres qui meurent de faim ? ».
Oedipus Rex, 1h44
Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini
Origin Italie
Genres Drama
Themes Films based on mythology, Films about sexuality, Théâtre, Films based on Greco-Roman mythology, Films based on plays, Dans la Grèce mythologique, Films based on Greco-Roman mythology
Actors Silvana Mangano, Franco Citti, Alida Valli, Carmelo Bene, Julian Beck, Ninetto Davoli
Roles High Priest (uncredited)
Rating71% 3.588633.588633.588633.588633.58863
A son is born to a young couple in pre-war Italy. The father, motivated by jealousy, takes the baby into the desert to be abandoned, at which point the film’s setting changes to the ancient world. The child is rescued, named Edipo by King Polybus (Ahmed Belhachmi) and Queen Merope (Alida Valli) of Corinth and raised as their own son. When Edipo (Franco Citti) learns of a prophecy foretelling that he will kill his father and marry his mother, he leaves Corinth believing that Polybus and Merope are his true parents.
Kill and Pray, 1h32
Directed by Carlo Lizzani
Origin Italie
Genres Action, Western, Spaghetti Western
Actors Lou Castel, Mark Damon, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Ninetto Davoli, Rossana Martini, Franco Citti
Roles Father Juan
Rating64% 3.246043.246043.246043.246043.24604
After surviving his family being massacred, a young boy is taken in and raised by a preacher. Years later he comes face to face with the man that killed his family and he is tempted back into violence.
Scouting in Palestine, 55minutes
Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini
Genres Documentary
Actors Pier Paolo Pasolini
Roles Self (uncredited)
Rating70% 3.5269353.5269353.5269353.5269353.526935
Voyage de repérages en Terre Sainte.
Love Meetings, 1h30
Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini, Vincenzo Cerami
Origin Italie
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about sexuality
Actors Pier Paolo Pasolini, Antonella Lualdi, Alberto Moravia, Graziella Granata
Roles Self - Interviewer (uncredited)
Rating75% 3.780113.780113.780113.780113.78011
Typical for him, Pasolini's subject is sex: he questions representatives from a variety of social brackets on topics such as virginity, prostitution, homosexuality and sex education. The overarching themes are sexual ignorance, confusion and conservatism.
La Rabbia
La Rabbia (1963)
, 50minutes
Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini, Giovannino Guareschi
Origin Italie
Genres Documentary
Actors Pier Paolo Pasolini, Giorgio Bassani, Carlo Romano, Ava Gardner, Sophia Loren, Marilyn Monroe
Rating66% 3.3488553.3488553.3488553.3488553.348855
Montage d'archives d'actualité des années 1950 et 1960
The Hunchback, 1h43
Directed by Carlo Lizzani
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, War, Biography
Themes Political films
Actors Gérard Blain, Anna Maria Ferrero, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Bernard Blier, Nino Castelnuovo, Enzo Cerusico
Roles Monco
Rating65% 3.2738553.2738553.2738553.2738553.273855
Alvaro fights during World War II against the Nazis and soon becomes a partisan leader. The other resistance fighters eventually dismiss him because they find his behaviour inacceptable. After the war he doesn't return to a normal life but turns into a foolhardy gangster.

Director

Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom, 1h57
Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini, Sergio Citti
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Erotic, War, Thriller, Horror, Historical, Crime
Themes Films about children, Films about families, Medical-themed films, Psychologie, Films about religion, Films about sexuality, Films about suicide, Rape in fiction, Bisexuality-related films, Erotic films, BDSM in films, LGBT-related films, Films about pedophilia, Films about prostitution, Transgender in film, Films about psychiatry, Political films, LGBT-related films, Same-sex marriage in film, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films, Cross-dressing in film
Actors Paolo Bonacelli, Aldo Valletti, Caterina Boratto, Ines Pellegrini, Elsa De Giorgi, Hélène Surgère
Rating58% 2.9085552.9085552.9085552.9085552.908555
In 1944 in the Republic of Salò, the Fascist-occupied portion of Italy, four wealthy men of power, the Duke, the Bishop, the Magistrate, and the President, agree to marry each other's daughters as the first step in a debauched ritual. They recruit four teenage boys to act as guards and four young soldiers (called "studs", "cockmongers", or "fuckers"), who are chosen because of their big penises. They then kidnap nine young men and nine young women and take them to a palace near Salò. Accompanying them are four middle-aged prostitutes, also collaborators, who recount arousing stories for the men, who sadistically exploit their victims.
Notes Towards an African Orestes, 1h5
Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini
Origin Italie
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about films, Films based on mythology, Documentary films about business, Documentary films about the film industry, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Films based on Greco-Roman mythology, Documentary films about films, Autobiographical documentary films, Films based on Greco-Roman mythology
Actors Gato Barbieri, Pier Paolo Pasolini
Rating66% 3.3492953.3492953.3492953.3492953.349295
En 1969, Pasolini voyage à travers la Tanzanie et l’Ouganda à la recherche des décors et des personnages de son prochain film : une adaptation de L'Orestie" d’Eschyle dans l’Afrique contemporaine. Il commente à voix haute, interroge les visages, les paysages, les situations et lit de larges et significatifs passages d’Eschyle. Il confronte ses idées, ses notes de voyage avec un groupe d’étudiants africains installés à l’université de Rome. Le film ne verra jamais le jour, mais ces notes filmées (et montées) par le cinéaste offrent une médiation sur l’indépendance, les promesses de la démocratie et le passage de l’âge archaïque à la civilisation moderne.
Arabian Nights, 2h35
Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Erotic, Comedy, Fantasy, Adventure, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, LGBT-related films, Musiques du monde, Musical films, Children's films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Ines Pellegrini, Ninetto Davoli, Franco Citti, Elisabetta Genovese
Rating66% 3.3482653.3482653.3482653.3482653.348265
The main story concerns an innocent young man, Nur-e-Din (Franco Merli), who comes to fall in love with a slave girl, Zumurrud (Ines Pellegrini), who selected him as her master. After a foolish error of his causes her to be abducted, he travels in search of her. Meanwhile, Zumurrud manages to escape and, disguised as a man, comes to a far-away kingdom where she becomes king. Various other travellers who recount their own tragic and romantic experiences include stories of a young man who becomes enraptured by a mysterious woman on his wedding day, and a man who is determined to free a woman from a demon (Franco Citti). Interwoven are Nur-e-Din's continuous search for Zumurrud and his (mostly erotic) adventures. In the end he arrives at the far-away kingdom and is finally reunited with Zumurrud. The tales contain abundant nudity, sex and slapstick humor.