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.
Cannes Film Festival
Best Screenplay Award
Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix
Grand Prix
Berlin Film Festival Awards
Golden Bear
Known For
Theorem
(1968)
Director
The Witches
(1967)
Director
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
(1976)
Director
The Decameron
(1971)
Director
Accattone
(1961)
Director
Oedipus Rex
(1967)
Director
Arabian Nights
(1974)
Director
Pigsty
(1969)
Director
The Gospel According to Matthew
(1965)
Director
The Canterbury Tales
(1972)
Director
Ro.Go.Pa.G.
(1963)
Director
Medea
(1970)
Director
Mamma Roma
(1962)
Director
The Hawks and the Sparrows
(1966)
Director
Full Filmography
Directing
Accattone
(1961)
Director
Mamma Roma
(1962)
Director
La Rabbia
(1963)
Director
Ro.Go.Pa.G.
(1963)
Director
The Gospel According to Matthew
(1965)
Director
Love Meetings
(1965)
Director
Scouting in Palestine
(1965)
Director
The Hawks and the Sparrows
(1966)
Director
The Witches
(1967)
Director
Oedipus Rex
(1967)
Director
The Earth As Seen from the Moon
(1967)
Director
Pasolini interviews Ezra Pound
(1967)
Director
Theorem
(1968)
Director
Notes for a Film in India
(1968)
Director
Caprice Italian Style
(1968)
Director
What Are the Clouds?
(1968)
Director
Orgy
(1968)
Director
Pigsty
(1969)
Director
Love and Anger
(1969)
Director
The Sequence of the Paper Flower
(1969)
Director
Medea
(1970)
Director
Appunti per un romanzo sull'immondezza
(1970)
Director
The Decameron
(1971)
Director
The Canterbury Tales
(1972)
Director
December 12th
(1972)
Director
Arabian Nights
(1974)
Director
The Walls of Sana'a
(1974)
Director
Notes Towards an African Orestes
(1975)
Director
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
(1976)
Director
La Rabbia di Pasolini
(2008)
Director
Acting
The Hunchback
(1960)
Monco
Second Look: Fellini
(1960)
Self
Scouting in Palestine
(1965)
Self (uncredited)
Love Meetings
(1965)
Self - Interviewer (uncredited)
Notes from a Critofilm
(1966)
Kill and Pray
(1967)
Father Juan
Pasolini interviews Ezra Pound
(1967)
Himself
Pier Paolo Pasolini: Primo piano. Personaggi e problemi dell'Italia d'oggi
(1967)
Himself
Oedipus Rex
(1967)
High Priest (uncredited)
Cinéma et Réalité
(1967)
Self
Notes for a Film in India
(1968)
Self
The Decameron
(1971)
Allievo di Giotto
Pier Paolo Pasolini: A Film Maker's Life
(1971)
Self
The Canterbury Tales
(1972)
Geoffrey Chaucer
S.P.Q.R.
(1972)
The Walls of Sana'a
(1974)
Narrator (voice)
Pasolini and the Form of the City
(1974)
Himself
Notes Towards an African Orestes
(1975)
Self (uncredited)
Pier Paolo Pasolini : vivre et encore plus
(1976)
Lui-même
My Name Is Anna Magnani
(1980)
Self (archive footage)
Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema
(1985)
Self
The Ashes of Pasolini
(1994)
Non al denaro non all'amore né al cielo
(1995)
Fioretti de Pier Paolo Pasolini 1922/1975
(1997)
Lui-même
Reunion; Salo
(1998)
Himself (Archive)
Pasolini, el poeta en la playa
(2000)
Archive footage
Federico Fellini's Autobiography
(2000)
Self (archive footage)
Salò: Yesterday and Today
(2002)
Bernardo Bertolucci: What Is the Purpose of Cinema?
(2002)
Self (archive footage)
Visioni della Medea (tracce di un film sognato)
(2004)
Via Pasolini
(2005)
Interviewee
Salò, l’ultimo film di Pier Paolo Pasolini
(2005)
Pasolini prossimo nostro
(2006)
Se stesso
Pasolini and the Secret Humiliation of Chaucer
(2006)
Interviewee (archive)
Callas Assoluta
(2007)
Self (archive footage)
La Rabbia di Pasolini
(2008)
Self (archive footage)
La rabbia 1, la rabbia 2, la rabbia 3... l'Arabia
(2008)
Il falso bugiardo
(2008)
Self (archive footage)
Pasolini's Last Words
(2012)
Self (archive)
Io sono nata viaggiando
(2013)
Self (archive footage)
Pier Paolo Pasolini e i confini - Memorie a est del corsaro del novecento
(2015)
Pasolini - Il corpo e la voce
(2015)
Pasolini maestro corsaro
(2015)
The Isle of Medea
(2016)
Self (archive footage)
Pier Paolo Pasolini: An Italian Journey
(2018)
Self (archive footage)
Notarangelo the Soul Hunter
(2019)
Self (archive footage)
Once Upon a Time: Tonino Delli Colli, Cinematographer
(2019)
Himself
L’Ultima Partita di Pasolini
(2020)
In a Future April: The Young Pasolini
(2020)
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Vor mir der Süden
(2021)
The Treasure of His Youth: The Photographs of Paolo Di Paolo
(2021)
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Pier Paolo Pasolini - Agnès Varda - New York - 1967
(2022)
Self
Pier Paolo Pasolini - Una visione nuova
(2023)
Self
Fils de Punk
(2024)
Self (archive footage)
Writing
Woman of the River
(1954)
Screenplay
Flucht in die Dolomiten
(1955)
Writer
Manon: Finestra 2
(1956)
Writer
Marisa la civetta
(1957)
Story and Screenplay
Nights of Cabiria
(1957)
Screenplay
The City’s Unknown
(1958)
Writer
Young Husbands
(1958)
Screenplay
The Big Night
(1959)
Novel and Screenplay
Il mago
(1959)
Writer
It Happened in '43
(1960)
Screenplay
From a Roman Balcony
(1960)
Screenplay
Stendali (Still They Toll)
(1960)
Writer
Handsome Antonio
(1960)
Screenplay
Il carro armato dell'8 settembre
(1960)
Screenplay
Death of a Friend
(1960)
Story
Caschi d'oro
(1960)
Writer
La Dolce Vita
(1960)
Screenplay
Accattone
(1961)
Screenplay and Story
The Chant of Tiber’s Branches
(1961)
Writer
Milano nera
(1961)
Writer
Girl in the Window
(1961)
Screenplay
La Commare Secca
(1962)
Story
Mamma Roma
(1962)
Screenplay and Story
Violent Life
(1962)
Novel
La Rabbia
(1963)
Writer
Ro.Go.Pa.G.
(1963)
Screenplay
The Gospel According to Matthew
(1965)
Writer
Scouting in Palestine
(1965)
Writer
The Hawks and the Sparrows
(1966)
Screenplay and Story
Oedipus Rex
(1967)
Writer
The Earth As Seen from the Moon
(1967)
Writer
The Witches
(1967)
Screenplay and Story
What Are the Clouds?
(1968)
Writer
Notes for a Film in India
(1968)
Writer
Orgy
(1968)
Writer
Caprice Italian Style
(1968)
Writer
Theorem
(1968)
Screenplay
Love and Anger
(1969)
Writer
Pigsty
(1969)
Writer
The Sequence of the Paper Flower
(1969)
Screenplay
Medea
(1970)
Writer
Ostia
(1970)
Story and Screenplay
Appunti per un romanzo sull'immondezza
(1970)
Writer
The Decameron
(1971)
Writer
December 12th
(1972)
Idea
The Canterbury Tales
(1972)
Screenplay
Bawdy Tales
(1973)
Screenplay and Story
Arabian Nights
(1974)
Writer
The Walls of Sana'a
(1974)
Writer
Notes Towards an African Orestes
(1975)
Writer
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
(1976)
Writer
Calderon
(1981)
Screenplay
Mulheres... Mulheres
(1981)
Short Story
L'altro enigma
(1988)
Author
Qui je suis
(1996)
Book
La Rabbia di Pasolini
(2008)
Writer
Editing
La Rabbia
(1963)
Editor
Notes Towards an African Orestes
(1975)
Editor
La Rabbia di Pasolini
(2008)
Editor
Crew
Sound