Person
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Directing · 1922–1975 · Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Biography
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.
Known for
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
Writer
La Dolce Vita
Screenplay
Quelli che il cinema
Self
Nights of Cabiria
Screenplay
The Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer
The Decameron
Allievo di Giotto
Arabian Nights
Director
Theorem
Director
Salò: Yesterday and Today
2002
Oedipus Rex
High Priest (uncredited)
Filmography
- 2026Proust Palimpsesto: Pastiches e MisturasSelf (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 2025Quelli che il cinemaSelf
- 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
- 2008La Rabbia di PasoliniDirector
- 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
- 1996Qui je suisBook
- 1995Non al denaro non all'amore né al cielo
- 1995Nella mischiaThanks
- 1994The Ashes of Pasolini
- 1988L'altro enigmaAuthor
- 1985Bellissimo: Images of the Italian CinemaSelf
- 1981Whoever Says the Truth Shall DieSelf- archive footage
- 1981CalderonScreenplay
- 1981Mulheres... MulheresShort Story
- 1980My Name Is Anna MagnaniSelf (archive footage)
- 1976Pier Paolo Pasolini : vivre et encore plusLui-même
- 1976Salò, or the 120 Days of SodomWriter
- 1975Backstage on the Set of Salò, or the 120 Days of SodomSelf
- 1975Notes Towards an African OrestesSelf (uncredited)
- 1974The Walls of Sana'aNarrator (voice)
- 1974Arabian NightsDirector
- 1974Pasolini and the Form of the CityHimself
- 1973Bawdy TalesScreenplay
- 1972The Canterbury TalesGeoffrey Chaucer
- 1972S.P.Q.R.
- 1972December 12thIdea
- 1971The DecameronAllievo di Giotto
- 1971Pier Paolo Pasolini: A Film Maker's LifeSelf
- 1970OstiaStory
- 1970Appunti per un romanzo sull'immondezzaDirector
- 1969MedeaDirector
- 1969Pasolini on 'Porcile'Self
- 1969PigstyDirector
- 1969Love and AngerDirector
- 1969The Sequence of the Paper FlowerDirector
- 1968OrgyDirector
- 1968TheoremDirector
- 1968Notes for a Film in IndiaSelf
- 1968Caprice Italian StyleDirector
- 1968What Are the Clouds?Director
- 1967Oedipus RexHigh Priest (uncredited)
- 1967Kill and PrayFather Juan
- 1967The WitchesDirector
- 1967The Earth As Seen from the MoonDirector
- 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
- 1966The Hawks and the SparrowsDirector
- 1966Notes from a Critofilm
- 1965Scouting in PalestineSelf (uncredited)
- 1965Love MeetingsSelf - Interviewer (uncredited)
- 1965The Gospel According to St. MatthewDirector
- 1963La RabbiaWriter
- 1963La ricottaDirector
- 1963Ro.Go.Pa.G.Director
- 1962Mamma RomaDirector
- 1962La Commare SeccaStory
- 1962Violent LifeNovel
- 1962The Marshes' ChantWriter
- 1961AccattoneDirector
- 1961Girl in the WindowScreenplay
- 1961Milano neraWriter
- 1960The HunchbackMonco
- 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
- 1960Death of a FriendStory
- 1960Caschi d'oroWriter
- 1959The Big NightNovel
- 1959Il magoWriter
- 1958Young HusbandsScreenplay
- 1958The City’s UnknownWriter
- 1957Nights of CabiriaScreenplay
- 1957GrigioWriter
- 1957MarisaStory
- 1956Manon: Finestra 2Writer
- 1955Flucht in die DolomitenWriter
- 1954Woman of the RiverScreenplay
- —Volgar Eloquioself
- —Sfuge (apres Varda)Self
- —Varda Meets Pasolin
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