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Pier Paolo Pasolini

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Director · 1922–1975 · Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy

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Highest rated as cast or director

Pier Paolo Pasolini's 7 titles from the 1960s have a median Balasaur Score of 73, led by Mamma Roma (83) and The Gospel According to St. Matthew (79), against 66 for those from the 1970s.

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.

Directed 30

1970s

  1. 1976
  2. 1975

    Notes Towards an African Orestes

    Director

  3. 1974
  4. The Walls of Sana'a

    Director

  5. 1972
  6. December 12th

    Director

  7. 1971
  8. 1970

1960s

  1. 1969

    Medea

    Director

  2. Pigsty

    Director

  3. Love and Anger

    Director

  4. The Sequence of the Paper Flower

    Director

  5. 1968

    Orgy

    Director

  6. Notes for a Film in India

    Director

  7. Caprice Italian Style

    Director

  8. What Are the Clouds?

    Director

  9. 1967
  10. The Earth As Seen from the Moon

    Director

  11. Pasolini Interviews: Ezra Pound

    Director

  12. 1966

    The Hawks and the Sparrows

    Director

  13. 1965

    Scouting in Palestine

    Director

  14. Love Meetings

    Director

  15. 1963
  16. La ricotta

    Director

  17. Ro.Go.Pa.G.

    Director

  18. 1962
  19. 1961

    Accattone

    Director

Wrote 54

2000s

  1. 2008

    La Rabbia di Pasolini

    Writer

1980s

  1. 1988

    L'altro enigma

    Author

  2. 1981

    Mulheres... Mulheres

    Short Story

1970s

  1. 1976
  2. 1975

    Notes Towards an African Orestes

    Writer

  3. 1974

    The Walls of Sana'a

    Writer

  4. 1973

    Bawdy Tales

    Screenplay, Story

  5. 1972
  6. December 12th

    Idea

  7. 1971
  8. 1970

    Ostia

    Story, Screenplay

1960s

  1. 1969

    Medea

    Writer

  2. Pigsty

    Writer

  3. The Sequence of the Paper Flower

    Screenplay

  4. Love and Anger

    Writer

  5. 1968

    Orgy

    Writer

  6. Notes for a Film in India

    Writer

  7. Caprice Italian Style

    Writer

  8. What Are the Clouds?

    Writer

  9. 1967
  10. The Earth As Seen from the Moon

    Writer

  11. 1966

    The Hawks and the Sparrows

    Screenplay, Story

  12. 1965

    Scouting in Palestine

    Writer

  13. 1963
  14. La ricotta

    Writer

  15. Ro.Go.Pa.G.

    Screenplay

  16. 1962
  17. La Commare Secca

    Story

  18. Violent Life

    Novel

  19. 1961

    Accattone

    Screenplay, Story

  20. Girl in the Window

    Screenplay

  21. The Marshes' Chant

    Writer

  22. Milano nera

    Writer

  23. 1960

    Stendali (Still They Toll)

    Writer

  24. From a Roman Balcony

    Screenplay

  25. Il carro armato dell'8 settembre

    Screenplay

  26. Long Night in '43

    Screenplay

  27. Il bell'Antonio

    Screenplay

  28. Death of a Friend

    Story

1950s

  1. 1959

    The Big Night

    Screenplay, Novel

  2. 1958

    Young Husbands

    Screenplay

  3. The City’s Unknown

    Writer

  4. 1957
  5. Grigio

    Writer

  6. Marisa

    Screenplay, Story

  7. 1956

    Manon: Finestra 2

    Writer

  8. 1955
  9. 1954

    Woman of the River

    Screenplay

Acted in 25

2020s

  1. 2024

    imagenaction

    Archive footage (voice)

  2. 2021

    Morceaux de Cannes

    Movie

  3. Vor mir der Süden

    Movie

  4. 2020

    L’Ultima Partita di Pasolini

    Movie

2010s

  1. 2015

    Pasolini - Il corpo e la voce

    Movie

  2. Pasolini maestro corsaro

    Movie

2000s

  1. 2008

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

    Movie

  2. 2006

    Pasolini prossimo nostro

    Se stesso

  3. Pasolini and the Secret Humiliation of Chaucer

    Interviewee (archive)

  4. 2005

    Via Pasolini

    Interviewee

  5. Salò, l’ultimo film di Pier Paolo Pasolini

    Movie

  6. 2004

    Visioni della Medea (tracce di un film sognato)

    Movie

  7. 2002

    Salò: Yesterday and Today

    Movie

  8. 2000

    Arruso

    Sé stesso (Materiale d'archivio)

1990s

  1. 1995

    Non al denaro non all'amore né al cielo

    Movie

  2. 1994

    The Ashes of Pasolini

    Movie

1970s

  1. 1976

    Pier Paolo Pasolini : vivre et encore plus

    Lui-même

  2. 1972
  3. S.P.Q.R.

    Movie

  4. 1971

1960s

  1. 1967
  2. 1966

    Pasolini l'Enragé

    Movie

  3. Notes from a Critofilm

    Movie

  4. 1960

    The Hunchback

    Monco

Edited 3

2000s

  1. 2008

    La Rabbia di Pasolini

    Editor

1970s

  1. 1975

    Notes Towards an African Orestes

    Editor

1960s

  1. 1963

Other crew 1

1970s

  1. 1970

    Ostia

    Supervising Technical Director

Sound 1

Appearances37

2020s

  1. 2026

    Proust Palimpsesto: Pastiches e Misturas

    Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

  2. 2023

    Pier Paolo Pasolini - Una visione nuova

    Self

  3. 2022

    Pier Paolo Pasolini - Agnès Varda - New York - 1967

    Self

  4. 2021
  5. 2020

    In a Future April: The Young Pasolini

    Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

2010s

  1. 2019

    Notarangelo the Soul Hunter

    Self (archive footage)

  2. 2018

    Pier Paolo Pasolini: An Italian Journey

    Self (archive footage)

  3. 2016

    The Isle of Medea

    Self (archive footage)

  4. 2014

    Pasolini, la passion de Rome

    Self (archive footage)

  5. 2013

    Io sono nata viaggiando

    Self (archive footage)

  6. 2012

    Pasolini's Last Words

    Self (archive)

2000s

  1. 2008

    Il falso bugiardo

    Self (archive footage)

  2. 2007

    Callas Assoluta

    Self (archive footage)

  3. 2006

    '68 - Reality's Utopia

    Self (archive footage)

  4. Histoire(s) du Cinéma 3a: The Coin of the Absolute

    Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

  5. 2005

    Der Sanfte Radikale

    himself (archive footage)

  6. 2002

    Bernardo Bertolucci: What Is the Purpose of Cinema?

    Self (archive footage)

  7. 2000

    Federico Fellini's Autobiography

    Self (archive footage)

1990s

  1. 1998

    Reunion; Salo

    Himself (Archive)

1980s

  1. 1985

    Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema

    Self

  2. 1981

    Whoever Says the Truth Shall Die

    Self- archive footage

  3. 1980

    My Name Is Anna Magnani

    Self (archive footage)

1970s

  1. 1975

    Backstage on the Set of Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom

    Self

  2. Notes Towards an African Orestes

    Self (uncredited)

  3. 1974

    The Walls of Sana'a

    Narrator (voice)

  4. Pasolini and the Form of the City

    Himself

  5. 1971

    Pier Paolo Pasolini: A Film Maker's Life

    Self

1960s

  1. 1969

    Pasolini on 'Porcile'

    Self

  2. 1968

    Notes for a Film in India

    Self

  3. 1967

    Cinéma et Réalité

    Self

  4. Pasolini Interviews: Ezra Pound

    Himself

  5. 1966

    Cinéastes de notre temps : Pier Paolo Pasolini

    himself

  6. 1965

    Scouting in Palestine

    Self (uncredited)

  7. Love Meetings

    Self - Interviewer (uncredited)

No release date

  1. Sfuge (apres Varda)

    Self

Thanked in the credits1