Pier Paolo Pasolini

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1922-03-05 (53 years old)

Deathday

1975-11-02

Place of Birth

Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy

Pier Paolo Pasolini

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.

Acting

1972

The Canterbury Tales

as Geoffrey Chaucer

1971

The Decameron

as Allievo di Giotto

1974

The Walls of Sana'a

as Narrator (voice)

2008

La Rabbia di Pasolini

as Self (archive footage)

1967

Kill and Pray

as Father Juan

2006

1965

Scouting in Palestine

as Self (uncredited)

1960

1998

Reunion; Salo

as Himself (Archive)

1967

Oedipus Rex

as High Priest (uncredited)

2013

Io sono nata viaggiando

as Self (archive footage)

1975

2019

Notarangelo the Soul Hunter

as Self (archive footage)

2021

2020

In a Future April: The Young Pasolini

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

2007

Callas Assoluta

as Self (archive footage)

1965

Love Meetings

as Self - Interviewer (uncredited)

2005

Via Pasolini

as Interviewee

2016

The Isle of Medea

as Self (archive footage)

1980

My Name Is Anna Magnani

as Self (archive footage)

2018

2000

2008

Il falso bugiardo

as Self (archive footage)

2012

Pasolini's Last Words

as Self (archive)

2000

Federico Fellini's Autobiography

as Self (archive footage)

2024

imagenaction

as Archive footage (voice)

2014

Pasolini, la passion de Rome

as Self (archive footage)

1981

Whoever Says the Truth Shall Die

as Self- archive footage

2000

Arruso

as Sé stesso (Materiale d'archivio)

Production

1968

Theorem

as Director

1972

1960

Caschi d'oro

as Writer

1959

Il mago

as Writer

1961

Accattone

as Director

1961

Accattone

as Screenplay

1961

Accattone

as Story

1971

The Decameron

as Director

1971

The Decameron

as Writer

1969

Medea

as Writer

1969

Medea

as Director

1974

1967

The Witches

as Director

1967

Oedipus Rex

as Writer

1967

Oedipus Rex

as Director

1965

Love Meetings

as Director

1960

Long Night in '43

as Screenplay

1963

La Rabbia

as Writer

1962

Mamma Roma

as Screenplay

1962

Mamma Roma

as Director

1974

Arabian Nights

as Director

1974

1969

Pigsty

as Director

1974

1963

La Rabbia

as Director

1969

Love and Anger

as Director

1959

The Big Night

as Screenplay

1959

1968

1963

Ro.Go.Pa.G.

as Director

2008

1968

Orgy

as Director

1968

Orgy

as Writer

1963

Ro.Go.Pa.G.

as Screenplay

1970

Ostia

as Story

1962

Violent Life

as Novel

1965

1960

1968

Theorem

as Screenplay

1995

Nella mischia

as Thanks

1972

1972

1972

The Canterbury Tales

as Music Supervisor

1969

1962

Mamma Roma

as Story

1967

The Witches

as Screenplay

1967

The Witches

as Story

1972

December 12th

as Director

1981

Calderon

as Screenplay

1988

1961

Girl in the Window

as Screenplay

1956

1957

Marisa

as Screenplay

1957

Marisa

as Story

1954

Woman of the River

as Screenplay

1957

Nights of Cabiria

as Screenplay

1970

Ostia

as Supervising Technical Director

1970

Ostia

as Screenplay

1960

La Dolce Vita

as Screenplay

1969

Pigsty

as Writer

1981

Mulheres... Mulheres

as Short Story

1996

1973

Bawdy Tales

as Screenplay

1973

Bawdy Tales

as Story

1968

1960

Handsome Antonio

as Screenplay

1963

La Rabbia

as Editor

1961

Milano nera

as Writer

1960

1958

Young Husbands

as Screenplay

1962

La Commare Secca

as Original Film Writer

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