Pasolini, un delitto italiano (Pasolini, an Italian Crime), internationally released as Who Killed Pasolini?, is a 1995 Italian crime-drama film co-written and directed by Marco Tullio Giordana. It was released on 3 July 1996. It depicts the trial against Pino Pelosi, who was charged with the murder of artist and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini.[1]
| Who Killed Pasolini? | |
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| Directed by | Marco Tullio Giordana |
| Written by | Enzo Siciliano (novel) Marco Tullio Giordana |
| Produced by | Vittorio Cecchi Gori Rita Rusic |
| Starring | Claudio Amendola Carlo De Filippi Nicoletta Braschi |
| Cinematography | Franco Lecca |
| Edited by | Cecilia Zanuso |
| Music by | Ennio Morricone |
| Distributed by | Variety Distribution |
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Running time | 100 minutes |
| Countries | Italy France |
| Language | Italian |
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 synopsis
editThe 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, his body of work and, above all, explains what people think of him in Italy: Pasolini according to some Italians was a provocative man who "deserved what he suffered" (his murder), as punishment for being a Communist and a homosexual. Instead, his friends and fellow intellectuals remember him as a very good and sensible man, who sought only to fight against neo-fascism and the cruel and bigoted mentality prevailing in the Occidental world, particularly in the bourgeois and middle-class society.
Cast
edit- Carlo De Filippi: Pino Pelosi
- Giulio Scarpati: Nino Marazzita
- Antonello Fassari: Rocco Mangia
- Claudio Bigagli: Guido Calvi
- Andrea Occhipinti: Furio Colombo
- Nicoletta Braschi: Graziella Chiarcossi
- Massimo De Francovich: Faustino Durante
- Victor Cavallo: Antonio Pelosi
- Rosa Pianeta: Maria Pelosi
- Antonio Petrocelli: Tommaso Spaltro
- Ivano Marescotti: a customer of Spaltro
- Claudio Amendola: "Trepalle"
- Enzo Marcelli: Braciola
- Simone Melis: Bracioletta
- Adriana Asti: teacher
- Toni Bertorelli: inspector Pigna
- Francesco Siciliano: journalist
- Pier Paolo Pasolini (archival footage)
- Ninetto Davoli (archival footage)
References
edit- ^ Roberto Chiti; Enrico Lancia; Roberto Poppi. Dizionario del cinema italiano: I Film. Gremese Editore, 2002. ISBN 8884401372.
- ^ a b Enrico Lancia (1998). I premi del cinema. Gremese Editore, 1998. ISBN 8877422211.
External links
edit- Who Killed Pasolini? at IMDb
- Who Killed Pasolini? at Rotten Tomatoes
- Who Killed Pasolini? at Variety Distribution
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