Pier Paolo Pasolini

Born: 1922-03-05

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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The Decameron

as Allievo di Giotto
Released: 1971-08-25

A young Sicilian is swindled twice, but ends up rich; a man poses as a deaf-mute in a convent of...

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Oedipus Rex

as High Priest (uncredited)
Released: 1967-09-07

In pre-war Italy, a young couple have a baby boy. The father, however, is jealous of his son -...

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The Canterbury Tales

as Geoffrey Chaucer
Released: 1972-09-02

Glimpses of Chaucer penning his famous work are sprinkled through this re-enactment of several...

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Love Meetings

as Self - Interviewer (uncredited)
Released: 1965-07-05

Pier Paolo Pasolini sets out to interview Italians about sex, apparently their least favorite...

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Kill and Pray

as Father Juan
Released: 1967-03-10

A Mexican community is slaughtered by Confederate troops; the lone survivor, a boy, is taken in...

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Scouting in Palestine

as Self (uncredited)
Released: 1965-07-11

In 1963, accompanied by a newsreel photographer and a Catholic priest, Piero Paolo Pasolini...

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The Hunchback

as Monco
Released: 1960-11-30

Alvaro Cosenza, also known as the Hunchback from Quarticciolo, during Rome's occupation by Nazis...

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Reunion; Salo

as Himself (Archive)
Released: 1998-01-01

Artist Adam Chodzko seeks to reunite the actors and actresses who played the victims in the...

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Il falso bugiardo

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2008-07-03

Based upon Vincenzoni's biography, "Pane e cinema", the documentary traces the story of the...

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Fils de Punk

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2024-10-12

By following several groups of musicians, outsiders and artists, director JUDAT is interested in...

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Notarangelo the Soul Hunter

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2019-05-03

David Griecos documentary showcases the underappreciated photography of Domenico Notarangelo,...

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Pier Paolo Pasolini: An Italian Journey

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2018-10-21

In the summer of 1959, as a magazine correspondent, writer and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini...

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My Name Is Anna Magnani

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 1980-09-30

Traces the life of Anna Magnani, her creations, her successes, her triumphs, her boycotted...

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Non al denaro non all'amore né al cielo

as uncredited
Released: 1995-11-21

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Cinéma et Réalité

as Self
Released: 1967-01-01

In this documentary, giants of italian cinema such as Rossellini, De Sica, Fellini and Zavattini...

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The Walls of Sana'a

as Narrator (voice)
Released: 1974-06-20

The capital of Yemen, the city of Sana'a, holds an important part of history within its walls...

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Callas Assoluta

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2007-12-20

This revealing documentary from director Philippe Kohly examines the storied life of renowned...

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Federico Fellini's Autobiography

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2000-09-05

Federico Fellini was one of the most individual and thought provoking directors who based most...

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S.P.Q.R.

as uncredited
Released: 1972-07-10

In this movie, director Volker Koch wants to reveal "petty-bourgeois fixations of consciousness...

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La rabbia 1, la rabbia 2, la rabbia 3... l'Arabia

as uncredited
Released: 2008-01-01

The story of La Rabbia by Pier Paolo Pasolini and Giovanni Guareschi, a movie lost in the...

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La Rabbia di Pasolini

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2008-09-05

An attempt to reconstruct the complete version of Pier Paolo Pasolini's segment of La rabbia.

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Pier Paolo Pasolini: A Film Maker's Life

as Self
Released: 1971-06-01

Documentary about Italian movie director Pier Paolo Pasolini, with interviews with some of his...

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Salò, l’ultimo film di Pier Paolo Pasolini

as uncredited
Released: 2005-01-01

A sequence of unpublished photographs by Deborah Beer taken during the filming of the torture...

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Via Pasolini

as Interviewee
Released: 2005-01-01

A documentary featuring archival footage of Pasolini discussing his views on language, film, and...

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Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema

as Self
Released: 1985-01-01

A documentary about the Italian cinema as art form and industry.

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In a Future April: The Young Pasolini

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: 2020-11-02

A unique chance to explore Pier Paolo Pasolini's youth through the voice and the body of his...

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The Treasure of His Youth: The Photographs of Paolo Di Paolo

as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Released: 2021-10-23

The life of the legendary Italian photojournalist Paolo Di Paolo through his photographs, which...

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Visioni della Medea (tracce di un film sognato)

as uncredited
Released: 2004-01-01

Some of the scenes cut from the final editing of Medea by Pier Paolo Pasolini, fortunately found...

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Notes Towards an African Orestes

as Self (uncredited)
Released: 1975-11-29

The director presents takes and scenes filmed on location in Africa for a film-that-never-was, a...

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Second Look: Fellini

as Self
Released: 1960-01-01

A four-part documentary series about the Italian director Federico Fellini. Episode 1: His...

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Salò: Yesterday and Today

as uncredited
Released: 2002-10-24

A thirty-three-minute documentary featuring interviews with director Pier Paolo Pasolini,...

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Notes from a Critofilm

as uncredited
Released: 1966-05-01

Reflections on the first films of Pier Paolo Pasolini with his considerations on the real...

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The Isle of Medea

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2016-08-31

On the 40th anniversary of the death of Maria Callas (September 16, 1977), with footage never...

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L’Ultima Partita di Pasolini

as uncredited
Released: 2020-11-02

On September 14, 1975, Pier Paolo Pasolini played his last game of football, before his death,...

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Pier Paolo Pasolini - Agnès Varda - New York - 1967

as Self
Released: 2022-06-24

Holding her 16mm camera, an optical prosthesis for a 20th-century stroller, Agnès Varda filmed...

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Vor mir der Süden

as uncredited
Released: 2021-07-01

3,700 km of coastline, a Fiat 1100, and an old travel diary, those are the ingredients for Pepe...

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Bernardo Bertolucci: What Is the Purpose of Cinema?

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2002-08-10

It is a chronological compilation of film clips, awards ceremonies and brief period interviews...

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Pier Paolo Pasolini - Una visione nuova

as Self
Released: 2023-03-01

The documentary focuses on some decisive encounters for Pasolini's intellectual parable with the...

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Pasolini - Il corpo e la voce

as uncredited
Released: 2015-10-24

Interactive documentary about Pier Paolo Pasolini.

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Pasolini prossimo nostro

as Se stesso
Released: 2006-11-24

We are on the set of "Salò or the 120 days of Sodom". Pasolini lets a small camera team led by...

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Pasolini interviews Ezra Pound

as Himself
Released: 1967-01-01

Ezra Pound, an acclaimed modern American poet living in Rapallo, was tried for treason because...

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Once Upon a Time: Tonino Delli Colli, Cinematographer

as Himself
Released: 2019-01-01

A documentary about Tonino Delli Colli, a man of cinema and cinematography, and one of the...

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Pasolini's Last Words

as Self (archive)
Released: 2012-01-02

This elegiac essay explores the year leading up to Pier Paolo Pasolini's murder in 1975. Through...

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