Pier Paolo Pasolini

Pier Paolo Pasolini was born on Mar 05, 1922 in Italy. Pier Paolo Pasolini's big-screen debut came with Il prigioniero della montagna directed by Luis Trenker in 1955. Pier Paolo Pasolini is known for Oedipus Rex directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini, Silvana Mangano stars as Giocasta and Franco Citti as Edipo. Pier Paolo Pasolini has got 22 awards and 24 nominations so far. The most recent award Pier Paolo Pasolini achieved is Venice Film Festival. The upcoming new movie Pier Paolo Pasolini plays is Oedipus Rex which will be released on Dec 07, 1984.

Pier Paolo Pasolini achieved fame and notoriety long before he entered the film industry. A published poet at 19, he had already written numerous novels and essays before his first screenplay in 1954. His first film Accattone (1961) was based on his own novel and its violent depiction of the life of a pimp in the slums of Rome caused a sensation. He was arrested in 1962 when his contribution to the portmanteau film Ro.Go.Pa.G. (1963) was considered blasphemous and given a suspended sentence. It might have been expected that his next film, Il vangelo secondo Matteo (1964) (The Gospel According to St. Matthew), which presented the Biblical story in a totally realistic, stripped-down style, would cause a similar fuss but, in fact, it was rapturously acclaimed as one of the few honest portrayals of Christ on screen. Its original Italian title pointedly omitted the Saint in St. Matthew). Pasolini's film career would then alternate distinctly personal and often scandalously erotic adaptations of classic literary texts: Edipo Re (1967) (Oedipus Rex); Il Decameron (1971); I racconti di Canterbury (1972) (The Canterbury Tales); Il fiore delle mille e una notte (1974) (Arabian Nights), with his own more personal projects, expressing his controversial views on Marxism, atheism, fascism and homosexuality, notably Teorema (1968) (Theorem), Pigsty and the notorious Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma (1975), a relentlessly grim fusion of Benito Mussolini's Fascist Italy with the 'Marquis de Sade' which was banned in Italy and many other countries for several years. Pasolini was murdered in still-mysterious circumstances shortly after completing the film.