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
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
(1976)
Director
The Decameron
(1971)
Director
Arabian Nights
(1974)
Director
Oedipus Rex
(1967)
Director
Mamma Roma
(1962)
Director
The Canterbury Tales
(1972)
Director
The Gospel According to Matthew
(1965)
Director
Theorem
(1968)
Director
Medea
(1970)
Director
Pigsty
(1969)
Director
Accattone
(1961)
Director
The Witches
(1967)
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 Earth As Seen from the Moon
(1967)
Director
Pasolini interviews Ezra Pound
(1967)
Director
Oedipus Rex
(1967)
Director
The Witches
(1967)
Director
Caprice Italian Style
(1968)
Director
Notes for a Film in India
(1968)
Director
Orgy
(1968)
Director
Theorem
(1968)
Director
What Are the Clouds?
(1968)
Director
Love and Anger
(1969)
Director
Pigsty
(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
December 12th
(1972)
Director
The Canterbury Tales
(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
Love Meetings
(1965)
Self - Interviewer (uncredited)
Scouting in Palestine
(1965)
Self (uncredited)
Notes from a Critofilm
(1966)
Kill and Pray
(1967)
Father Juan
Oedipus Rex
(1967)
High Priest (uncredited)
Cinéma et Réalité
(1967)
Self
Pier Paolo Pasolini: Primo piano. Personaggi e problemi dell'Italia d'oggi
(1967)
Himself
Pasolini interviews Ezra Pound
(1967)
Himself
Notes for a Film in India
(1968)
Self
The Decameron
(1971)
Allievo di Giotto
Pier Paolo Pasolini: A Film Maker's Life
(1971)
Self
S.P.Q.R.
(1972)
The Canterbury Tales
(1972)
Geoffrey Chaucer
Pasolini and the Form of the City
(1974)
Himself
The Walls of Sana'a
(1974)
Narrator (voice)
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)
Salò, l’ultimo film di Pier Paolo Pasolini
(2005)
Via Pasolini
(2005)
Interviewee
Pasolini and the Secret Humiliation of Chaucer
(2006)
Interviewee (archive)
Pasolini prossimo nostro
(2006)
Se stesso
Callas Assoluta
(2007)
Self (archive footage)
La rabbia 1, la rabbia 2, la rabbia 3... l'Arabia
(2008)
La Rabbia di Pasolini
(2008)
Self (archive footage)
Il falso bugiardo
(2008)
Self (archive footage)
Pasolini's Last Words
(2012)
Self (archive)
Io sono nata viaggiando
(2013)
Self (archive footage)
Pasolini maestro corsaro
(2015)
Pasolini - Il corpo e la voce
(2015)
Pier Paolo Pasolini e i confini - Memorie a est del corsaro del novecento
(2015)
The Isle of Medea
(2016)
Self (archive footage)
Pier Paolo Pasolini: An Italian Journey
(2018)
Self (archive footage)
Once Upon a Time: Tonino Delli Colli, Cinematographer
(2019)
Himself
Notarangelo the Soul Hunter
(2019)
Self (archive footage)
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
Il carro armato dell'8 settembre
(1960)
Screenplay
From a Roman Balcony
(1960)
Screenplay
La Dolce Vita
(1960)
Screenplay
Stendali (Still They Toll)
(1960)
Writer
Handsome Antonio
(1960)
Screenplay
Death of a Friend
(1960)
Story
Caschi d'oro
(1960)
Writer
It Happened in '43
(1960)
Screenplay
Milano nera
(1961)
Writer
Accattone
(1961)
Screenplay and Story
Girl in the Window
(1961)
Screenplay
The Chant of Tiber’s Branches
(1961)
Writer
Mamma Roma
(1962)
Screenplay and Story
La Commare Secca
(1962)
Story
Violent Life
(1962)
Novel
La Rabbia
(1963)
Writer
Ro.Go.Pa.G.
(1963)
Screenplay
Scouting in Palestine
(1965)
Writer
The Gospel According to Matthew
(1965)
Writer
The Hawks and the Sparrows
(1966)
Screenplay and Story
The Witches
(1967)
Screenplay and Story
The Earth As Seen from the Moon
(1967)
Writer
Oedipus Rex
(1967)
Writer
Orgy
(1968)
Writer
Theorem
(1968)
Screenplay
Caprice Italian Style
(1968)
Writer
What Are the Clouds?
(1968)
Writer
Notes for a Film in India
(1968)
Writer
Love and Anger
(1969)
Writer
The Sequence of the Paper Flower
(1969)
Screenplay
Pigsty
(1969)
Writer
Ostia
(1970)
Story and Screenplay
Appunti per un romanzo sull'immondezza
(1970)
Writer
Medea
(1970)
Writer
The Decameron
(1971)
Writer
The Canterbury Tales
(1972)
Screenplay
December 12th
(1972)
Idea
Bawdy Tales
(1973)
Screenplay and Story
The Walls of Sana'a
(1974)
Writer
Arabian Nights
(1974)
Writer
Notes Towards an African Orestes
(1975)
Writer
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
(1976)
Writer
Mulheres... Mulheres
(1981)
Short Story
Calderon
(1981)
Screenplay
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