| Who Killed Pasolini? | |
| Director: | Marco Tullio Giordana |
| Starring: | Claudio Amendola Carlo De Filippi Nicoletta Braschi |
| Music: | Ennio Morricone |
| Cinematography: | Franco Lecca |
| Editing: | Cecilia Zanuso |
| Producer: | Vittorio Cecchi Gori Rita Rusic |
| Country: | Italy France |
| Language: | Italian |
| Runtime: | 100 minutes |
| Distributor: | Variety Distribution |
Pasolini, un delitto italiano (Pasolini, an Italian Crime), internationally released as Who Killed Pasolini?, is a 1995 Italian crime-drama film co-written and directed by Marco Tullio Giordana. It was released on 3 July 1996. It depicts the trial against Pino Pelosi, who was charged with the murder of artist and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini.[1]
The film entered the competition at the 52nd Venice International Film Festival, in which Giordana won the President of the Italian Senate's gold medal.[2] The film also won the David di Donatello for best editing.[2]
The film traces the last hours of the life of poet and film director Pier Paolo Pasolini. The poet is killed at night in 1975 on the beach at Ostia, near Rome. A boy is arrested: Pino Pelosi, and charged with murder. The police and judges believe that Pelosi is the only murderer of Pasolini, but his injuries on the body of the poet are too severe and profound. Then are called to bear witness to the death of the poet his sister and his mother, destroyed by grief.
As the process unfolds, the film examines the personality of Pasolini, his body of work and, above all, explains what people think of him in Italy: Pasolini according to some Italians was a provocative man who "deserved what he suffered" (his murder), as punishment for being a Communist and a homosexual. Instead, his friends and fellow intellectuals remember him as a very good and sensible man, who sought only to fight against neo-fascism and the cruel and bigoted mentality prevailing in the Occidental world, particularly in the bourgeois and middle-class society.
Pino Pelosi
Nino Marazzita
Rocco Mangia
Guido Calvi
Graziella Chiarcossi
Faustino Durante
Antonio Pelosi
Maria Pelosi
Tommaso Spaltro
a customer of Spaltro
"Trepalle"
Braciola
Bracioletta
teacher
inspector Pigna
journalist