Personal Info
Known For
Directing
Birthday
1922-03-05
Deathday
1975-11-02
Place of Birth
Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Pier Paolo Pasolini
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.
Known For
Oedipus Rex
as High Priest (uncredited)
The Decameron
as Allievo di Giotto
Love Meetings
as Self - Interviewer (uncredited)
The Canterbury Tales
as Geoffrey Chaucer
Kill and Pray
as Father Juan
Scouting in Palestine
as Self (uncredited)
Notes Towards an African Orestes
as Self (uncredited)
The Walls of Sana'a
as Narrator (voice)
La Rabbia di Pasolini
as Self (archive footage)
Federico Fellini's Autobiography
as Self (archive footage)