Who Killed Pasolini?

Who Killed Pasolini?
Directed by Marco Tullio Giordana
Produced by Vittorio Cecchi Gori
Rita Rusic
Written by Enzo Siciliano (novel)
Marco Tullio Giordana
Starring Claudio Amendola
Carlo De Filippi
Nicoletta Braschi
Music by Ennio Morricone
Cinematography Franco Lecca
Edited by Cecilia Zanuso
Release dates
 1995
Running time
 100 min
Country Italy - France
Language Italian

Pasolini, un delitto italiano (Pasolini, an Italian Crime), internationally released as Who Killed Pasolini?, is a 1995 Italian crime-drama film directed by Marco Tullio Giordana. It depicts of the trial against Pino Pelosi, charged with the murder of Pier Paolo Pasolini.[1]

The film entered the competition at the 52nd Venice International Film Festival, in which Giordana won the President of the Italian Senate's Gold Medal.[2] The film also won the David di Donatello for best editing.[2]

Plot

The film traces the last hours of the life of poet and film director Pier Paolo Pasolini. The poet is killed at night in 1975 on the beach at Ostia, near Rome. A boy is arrested: Pino Pelosi, and charged with murder. The police and judges believe that Pelosi is the only murderer of Pasolini, but his injuries on the body of the poet are too severe and profound. Then are called to bear witness to the death of the poet his sister and his mother, destroyed by grief. As the process unfolds, the film examines the personality of Pasolini, and his works and, above all explains what people think of him in Italy. Pasolini according to some Italians was a provocative man: he deserved what he suffered, having been a Communist and a homosexual. Instead, his friends and intellectuals remember him as a very good and sensible man, who sought only to fight against neo-fascism and the cruel and bigoted mentality of middle-class society.

Cast

References

  1. ↑ Roberto Chiti, Enrico Lancia, Roberto Poppi. Dizionario del cinema italiano: I Film. Gremese Editore, 2002. ISBN 8884401372.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Enrico Lancia. I premi del cinema. Gremese Editore, 1998. ISBN 8877422211.

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