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Pier Paolo Pasolini

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Known for
Directing
Born
March 5, 1922, Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Died
November 2, 1975
Movies
118

Pier Paolo Pasolini (March 5, 1922 – November 2, 1975) was an Italian film director, poet, writer, and intellectual. Pasolini distinguished himself as a poet, journalist, philosopher, linguist, novelist, playwright, filmmaker, newspaper and magazine columnist, actor, painter and political figure. He demonstrated a unique and extraordinary cultural versatility, becoming a highly controversial figure in the process.

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Volgar Eloquio

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Sfuge (apres Varda)

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Best-Known Movies

Filmography

2026Proust Palimpsesto: Pastiches e MisturasSelf (archive footage) (uncredited)
2024imagenactionArchive footage (voice)
2023Pier Paolo Pasolini - Una visione nuovaSelf
2022Pier Paolo Pasolini - Agnès Varda - New York - 1967Self
2021The Treasure of His Youth: The Photographs of Paolo Di PaoloSelf - Filmmaker (archive footage)
2021Morceaux de Cannes
2021Vor mir der Süden
2020In a Future April: The Young PasoliniSelf (archive footage) (uncredited)
2020L’Ultima Partita di Pasolini
2019Notarangelo the Soul HunterSelf (archive footage)
2019Once Upon a Time: Tonino Delli Colli, CinematographerHimself
2018Pier Paolo Pasolini: An Italian JourneySelf (archive footage)
2016The Isle of MedeaSelf (archive footage)
2015Pier Paolo Pasolini e i confini - Memorie a est del corsaro del novecento
2015Pasolini - Il corpo e la voce
2015Pasolini maestro corsaro
2014Pasolini, la passion de RomeSelf (archive footage)
2013Io sono nata viaggiandoSelf (archive footage)
2012Pasolini's Last WordsSelf (archive)
2009The Ashes of PasoliniSelf
2008Il falso bugiardoSelf (archive footage)
2008La rabbia 1, la rabbia 2, la rabbia 3... l'Arabia
2007Callas AssolutaSelf (archive footage)
2006Pasolini prossimo nostroSe stesso
2006Pasolini and the Secret Humiliation of ChaucerInterviewee (archive)
2006Histoire(s) du Cinéma 3a: The Coin of the AbsoluteSelf (archive footage) (uncredited)
2005Via PasoliniInterviewee
2005Salò, l’ultimo film di Pier Paolo Pasolini
2005Der Sanfte Radikalehimself (archive footage)
2004Visioni della Medea (tracce di un film sognato)
2002Salò: Yesterday and Today
2002Bernardo Bertolucci: What Is the Purpose of Cinema?Self (archive footage)
2000Pasolini, el poeta en la playaArchive footage
2000ArrusoSé stesso (Materiale d'archivio)
2000Federico Fellini's AutobiographySelf (archive footage)
1998Reunion; SaloHimself (Archive)
1997Fioretti de Pier Paolo Pasolini 1922/1975Lui-même
1995Non al denaro non all'amore né al cielo
1994The Ashes of Pasolini
1985Bellissimo: Images of the Italian CinemaSelf
1981Whoever Says the Truth Shall DieSelf- archive footage
1980My Name Is Anna MagnaniSelf (archive footage)
1976Pier Paolo Pasolini : vivre et encore plusLui-même
1975Backstage on the Set of Salò, or the 120 Days of SodomSelf
1975Notes Towards an African OrestesSelf (uncredited)
1974The Walls of Sana'aNarrator (voice)
1974Pasolini and the Form of the CityHimself
1972The Canterbury TalesGeoffrey Chaucer
1972S.P.Q.R.
1971The DecameronAllievo di Giotto
1971Pier Paolo Pasolini: A Film Maker's LifeSelf
1969Pasolini on 'Porcile'Self
1968Notes for a Film in IndiaSelf
1967Oedipus RexHigh Priest (uncredited)
1967Kill and PrayFather Juan
1967Cinéma et RéalitéSelf
1967Pasolini Interviews: Ezra PoundHimself
1967Pier Paolo Pasolini: Primo piano. Personaggi e problemi dell'Italia d'oggiHimself
1966Pasolini l'Enragé
1966Cinéastes de notre temps : Pier Paolo Pasolinihimself
1966Notes from a Critofilm
1965Scouting in PalestineSelf (uncredited)
1965Love MeetingsSelf - Interviewer (uncredited)
1960The HunchbackMonco

Directing, Writing & Producing

2008La Rabbia di PasoliniWriter
1981CalderonScreenplay
1976Salò, or the 120 Days of SodomWriter, Director
1975Notes Towards an African OrestesWriter, Director
1974The Walls of Sana'aWriter, Director
1974Arabian NightsWriter, Director
1973Bawdy TalesScreenplay
1972The Canterbury TalesDirector, Screenplay
1972December 12thDirector
1971The DecameronDirector, Writer
1970OstiaScreenplay
1970Notes for a Novel About GarbageWriter, Director
1969MedeaWriter, Director
1969PigstyDirector, Writer
1969Love and AngerDirector, Writer
1969The Sequence of the Paper FlowerDirector, Screenplay
1968OrgyDirector, Writer
1968TheoremDirector, Screenplay
1968Notes for a Film in IndiaDirector, Writer
1968Caprice Italian StyleDirector, Writer
1968What Are the Clouds?Director, Writer
1967Oedipus RexDirector, Writer
1967The WitchesDirector, Screenplay
1967The Earth As Seen from the MoonDirector, Writer
1967Pasolini Interviews: Ezra PoundDirector
1966The Hawks and the SparrowsDirector, Screenplay
1965Scouting in PalestineWriter, Director
1965Love MeetingsDirector
1965The Gospel According to St. MatthewDirector, Writer
1963La RabbiaWriter, Director
1963La ricottaDirector, Writer
1963Ro.Go.Pa.G.Director, Screenplay
1962Mamma RomaScreenplay, Director
1961AccattoneScreenplay, Director
1961Girl in the WindowScreenplay
1961The Marshes' ChantWriter
1961Milano neraWriter
1960Stendali (Still They Toll)Writer
1960From a Roman BalconyScreenplay
1960Il carro armato dell'8 settembreScreenplay
1960Long Night in '43Screenplay
1960Il bell'AntonioScreenplay
1960La Dolce VitaScreenplay
1960Caschi d'oroWriter
1959The Big NightScreenplay
1959Il magoWriter
1958Young HusbandsScreenplay
1958The City’s UnknownWriter
1957Nights of CabiriaScreenplay
1957GrigioWriter
1957MarisaScreenplay
1956Manon: Finestra 2Writer
1955Flucht in die DolomitenWriter
1954Woman of the RiverScreenplay

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