Country: Italy, France
Year: 1975
Duration: 116'
In the Republic of Salò, four fascists kidnap some adolescent boys and girls and lock them up in a villa to exploit them for their own perverse pleasure, with various types of obsessions and cruel acts of gratuitous violence. The first to die are a soldier and a maid, caught making love behind their masters’ backs, followed by all the others, tortured and killed before their eyes… Pasolini’s last film, fifty years after its release and its almost immediate confiscation, which prohibited its circulation almost everywhere, it remains a frightening, radical work about the fascism of instincts and of the Italian collective. Pasolini disobeyed every possible film convention, staging, in his hieratic and enchanted manner, the horror of history, making his most extreme masterpiece – unfortunately, shortly before he was killed.
Biography
film director
Pier Paolo Pasolini
(Bologna, Italy, 1922 - Ostia, Rome, Italy, 1975) published his first collection of poems in 1942, before graduating from university and teaching at a middle school in the province of Udine. He then moved to Rome, where in 1955 he published Ragazzi di vita, which led to the first of a long series of lawsuits. He debuted in cinema in 1961 with Accattone!, presented at Venice, which was then followed by films such as Mamma Roma, The Gospel According to Saint Matthew, Hawks and Sparrows, Oedipus Rex, The Decameron and Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom, which previewed in Paris in November 1975, three weeks after his death.
FILMOGRAFIA
Accattone (1961), Mamma Roma (1962), Ro.Go.Pa.G. (ep. La ricotta, 1963), Comizi d’amore (tv, doc., 1964), Il Vangelo secondo Matteo (1964), Uccellacci e uccellini (1966), Le streghe (ep. La Terra vista dalla Luna, 1967), Edipo re (1967), Capriccio all’italiana (ep. Che cosa sono le nuvole?, 1968), Appunti per un film sull’India (1968), Teorema (1968), Amore e rabbia (ep. La sequenza del fiore di carta, 1969), Porcile (1969), Medea (1969), Appunti per un’Orestiade africana (1969), Il Decameron (1971), Le mura di Sana’a (1971), I racconti di Canterbury (1972), Il fiore delle Mille e una notte (1974), Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma (1975).
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR, SCREENPLAY: Pier Paolo Pasolini. STORY: Pier Paolo Pasolini, from The 120 Days of Sodom by the Marquis de Sade and from the writings of Roland Barthes and Pierre Klossowski. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Tonino Delli Colli. FILM EDITING: Nino Baragli, Tatiana Casini Morigi, Enzo Ocone. PRODUCTION DESIGN: Dante Ferretti. COSTUME DESIGN: Danilo Donati. MUSIC: Ennio Morricone. CAST: Paolo Bonacelli, Giorgio Cataldi, Uberto Paolo Quintavalle, Aldo Valletti, Caterina Boratto, Elsa De Giorgi, Hélène Surgère, Sonia Saviange, Marco Lucantoni, Sergio Fascetti, Bruno Musso, Antonio Orlando, Claudio Cicchetti, Franco Merli, Umberto Chessari, Lamberto Book, Gaspare Di Jenno, Giuliana Melis, Faridah Malik, Graziella Aniceto, Renata Moar, Dorit Henke, Antiniska Nemour, Benedetta Gaetani, Olga Andreis, Anna Troccoli. PRODUCTION: Alberto Grimaldi.
CONTACT: Cineteca di Bologna cinetecadirezione@cineteca.bologna.it
