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Whoever Says the Truth Shall Die( 1981)

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A film about Pier Paolo Pasolini

Overview

Philo Bregstein tells us this film looks at Pasolini's life and art to explain why he died. The film traces Pasolini's life chronologically - family roots, hiding during World War II, teaching, moving to Rome, being arrested and acquitted many times, publishing poems, getting into film, being provocative, and being murdered. Interviews with Alberto Moravia, Laura Betti, Maria Antonietta Macciocch, and Bernard Bertolucci are inter-cut with readings of Pasolini's poems and with clips from four films - primarily the Gospel According to St. Matthew - to illustrate his changing ideas and points of view. Bregstein makes a case for Pasolini's being lynched.

    Top Billed Cast

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      Pier Paolo Pasolini

      Self- archive footage

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      Alberto Moravia

      Self - writer

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      Laura Betti

      Self

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      Maria Antonietta Macciocchi

      Self - writer

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      Bernardo Bertolucci

      Self

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      Nino Marazzita

      Self - Pier Paolo Pasolini family's lawyer

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    A review by Charles Tatum

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    Written by Charles Tatum on Sun Jul 16 2023
    On November 2, 1975, film maker Pier Paolo Pasolini was brutally beaten, and then run over by a car, ending the life of an inconvenient thorn in the side of the powers-that-be in Italy. Pasolini was born in 1922 to a rich military father who gambled away most of the family's money, and a vocally anti-fascist mother. Pasolini became a follower of Mussolini anyway, and published a volume of poetry during World War II. Things changed after the politically motivated murder of Pasolini's younger brother, and Pasolini turned into a Communist who longed for Italy's return to greatness as experienced i...

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    Facts

    Status

    Released

    Original Language

    English

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