Pier Paolo Pasolini

Directing · Born 1922-03-05 in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy

Biography

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.

Filmography

• The Canterbury Tales as Geoffrey Chaucer
• The Decameron as Allievo di Giotto
• The Walls of Sana'a as Narrator (voice)
• Kill and Pray as Father Juan
• Pier Paolo Pasolini - Una visione nuova as Self
• Pasolini prossimo nostro as Se stesso
• Scouting in Palestine as Self (uncredited)
• The Hunchback as Monco
• Pier Paolo Pasolini - Agnès Varda - New York - 1967 as Self
• Oedipus Rex as High Priest (uncredited)