95 years ago was born Pier Paolo Pasolini: the movies to remember him

95 years ago was born Pier Paolo Pasolini: the movies to remember him

Ninety-five years ago, on March 5, 1922, Pier Paolo Pasolini was born in Bologna. He was one of the greatest Italian intellectuals: writer, poet, director, engaged polemicist.

He dies, brutally murdered on the night between 1 and 2 November 1975 in Ostia. Many aspects of his death, in more than 40 years later, still remain obscure.

We remember him with some of his films

The scrounger (1961)

The Gospel According to St.Matthew (1964)

The Hawks and the Sparrows (1966)

Oedipus Rex (1967)

Teorema (1968)

The Decameron (1971)

The Canterbury Tales (1972)

Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975)