Biografía

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Non-professional actors

Marxist representation

Frequently casts Franco Citti, Ninetto Davoli and Laura Betti. Davoli was his partner in life.

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Son of a soldier who became famous for saving Benito Mussolini's life. Ironically, Pasolini was a strong anti-fascist.

Member of the Italian Communist Party from 1947 to 1949. He was expelled after a scandal.

Was murdered shortly before the release of his controversial art film Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975). Though Giuseppe "Pino" Pelosi, a 17 year-old hustler was arrested for the murder after being caught with Pasolini's car and confessing to the murder, to this day the case remains unsolved. In 2005, Pelosi revealed that Pasolini was killed by three men linked to political groups opposed to the director's films and politics. The case was briefly reopened and later dismissed due to lack of evidence. Another story revolves around Pasolini meeting with extortionists who stole footage from Salò.

Pasolini began writing poetry at the age of 7. From the age of ten, he wrote poetry in the old language of "Friulan", which was spoken by peasants and his mother, Susanna Pasolini.

Owned an old castle in Viterbo, north of Rome.

The mark which has dominated all my work is the longing for life, this sense of exclusion, which doesn't lessen, but augments this love of life.

[on atheism] If you know that I am an unbeliever, then you know me better than I do myself. I may be an unbeliever, but I am an unbeliever who has a nostalgia for a belief. (1966)

[on Saló o los 120 días de Sodoma (1975)] My film shows the sinister connection between consumerism and Nazism.

I think that consumerism manipulates and violates bodies neither more nor less than Nazism.

I love life fiercely, even desperately. I believe that this ferocity and this desperation will only lead to my destruction. I love the sun, the grass, the youth. It has become for me a vice more terrible than cocaine. I devour my existence with an insatiable appetite. How will all of this end? I don't know.