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28/02/1981 Documentary 1h 0m
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A film about Pier Paolo Pasolini

Overview

Philo Bregstein tells us this film looks at Pasolini's life and art to explain why he died. The film traces Pasolini's life chronologically - family roots, hiding during World War II, teaching, moving to Rome, being arrested and acquitted many times, publishing poems, getting into film, being provocative, and being murdered. Interviews with Alberto Moravia, Laura Betti, Maria Antonietta Macciocch, and Bernard Bertolucci are inter-cut with readings of Pasolini's poems and with clips from four films - primarily the Gospel According to St. Matthew - to illustrate his changing ideas and points of view. Bregstein makes a case for Pasolini's being lynched.

  1. Philo Bregstein

    Director, Writer

  2. Michèle Garlati

    Writer

Top billed cast

  1. Pier Paolo Pasolini

    Self- archive footage

  2. Alberto Moravia

    Self - writer

  3. Laura Betti

    Self

  4. Maria Antonietta Macciocchi

    Self - writer

  5. Bernardo Bertolucci

    Self

  6. Nino Marazzita

    Self - Pier Paolo Pasolini family's lawyer

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Reviews

A review by tmdb76622195
Written by tmdb76622195 on 2023-07-16
On November 2, 1975, film maker Pier Paolo Pasolini was brutally beaten, and then run over by a car, ending the life of an inconvenient thorn in the side of the powers-that-be in Italy. Pasolini was born in 1922 to a rich military father who gambled away most of the family's money, and a vocally anti-fascist mother. Pasolini became a follower of Mussolini anyway, and published a volume of poetry during World War II. Things changed after the politically motivated murder of Pasolini's younger brother, and Pasolini turned into a Communist who longed for Italy's return to greatness as experienced ...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
Italian

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

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