Pier Paolo Pasolini

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Born: March 5, 1922
Died: November 2, 1975
in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
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.

Movies for Pier Paolo Pasolini...

Fils de Punk
Title: Fils de Punk
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: October 12, 2024
Type: Movie
By following several groups of musicians, outsiders and artists, director JUDAT is interested in punk movements, outsiders and their words in our society and the advance of the far right in France.
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Pier Paolo Pasolini - Una visione nuova
Title: Pier Paolo Pasolini - Una visione nuova
Character: Self
Released: March 1, 2023
Type: Movie
The documentary focuses on some decisive encounters for Pasolini's intellectual parable with the great Oscars of Italian cinema: from Bernardo Bertolucci to Dante Ferretti, from Ennio Morricone to Danilo Donati.
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Pier Paolo Pasolini - Agnès Varda - New York - 1967
Title: Pier Paolo Pasolini - Agnès Varda - New York - 1967
Character: Self
Released: June 24, 2022
Type: Movie
Holding her 16mm camera, an optical prosthesis for a 20th-century stroller, Agnès Varda filmed 42nd Street in NYC in 1967, filming crowds of passers-by to the beat of the Doors. Recovered from the French director's boxes, with images of Varda, Pasolini and New York. Pasolini is shown walking in the Big Apple (where he went to present 'Hawks and Sparrows').
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The Treasure of His Youth: The Photographs of Paolo Di Paolo
Title: The Treasure of His Youth: The Photographs of Paolo Di Paolo
Character: Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Released: October 23, 2021
Type: Movie
The life of the legendary Italian photojournalist Paolo Di Paolo through his photographs, which capture the essence of a fascinating and turbulent Italy, the one inhabited by Anna Magnani and Pier Paolo Pasolini, a country that no longer exists.
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Vor mir der Süden
Title: Vor mir der Süden
Released: July 1, 2021
Type: Movie
3,700 km of coastline, a Fiat 1100, and an old travel diary, those are the ingredients for Pepe Danquart’s documentary. Following the footsteps of the great Italian thinker Pier Paolo Pasolini, the filmmaker gains a deep insight into the social reality of present-day Italy. The country is massively affected by globalization, migration and the phenomenon of mass tourism, which, more than ever, is characterised by the same hedonistic conformity that Pasolini lamented more than fifty years ago. Ahead of me the South is a poetic contemporary document, a kaleidoscopic picture of the Italy of today.
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L’Ultima Partita di Pasolini
Title: L’Ultima Partita di Pasolini
Released: November 2, 2020
Type: Movie
On September 14, 1975, Pier Paolo Pasolini played his last game of football, before his death, in San Benedetto del Tronto. “The last match of Pasolini” starts from a pretext of a football game, to tell a historical period that was fundamental for the whole of Italy, with its contradictions and tragedies, through an apparently playful vision of Pasolini, but that allows us to understand better the importance of the Italian poet and director.
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In a Future April: The Young Pasolini
Title: In a Future April: The Young Pasolini
Character: Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: November 2, 2020
Type: Movie
A unique chance to explore Pier Paolo Pasolini's youth through the voice and the body of his direct cousin, writer and poet Nico Naldini.
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Notarangelo the Soul Hunter
Title: Notarangelo the Soul Hunter
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: May 3, 2019
Type: Movie
David Griecos documentary showcases the underappreciated photography of Domenico Notarangelo, and through it, tells the story of Matera, it's people and it's history.
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Once Upon a Time: Tonino Delli Colli, Cinematographer
Title: Once Upon a Time: Tonino Delli Colli, Cinematographer
Character: Himself
Released: January 1, 2019
Type: Movie
A documentary about Tonino Delli Colli, a man of cinema and cinematography, and one of the greatest performers of the Arte della Luce and of photography in movement.
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Pier Paolo Pasolini: An Italian Journey
Title: Pier Paolo Pasolini: An Italian Journey
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: October 21, 2018
Type: Movie
In the summer of 1959, as a magazine correspondent, writer and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-75) traveled along the Italian coast. In 1963, he documented the sexual behavior of the Italians. In the winter of 1970-71, he witnessed the hardships of the most impoverished Italian population suffering from the boot of state power. After these three trips, he came to the conclusion that Italian society had changed drastically for the worse over the years.
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The Isle of Medea
Title: The Isle of Medea
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: August 31, 2016
Type: Movie
On the 40th anniversary of the death of Maria Callas (September 16, 1977), with footage never seen before from Pier Paolo Pasolini's film MEDEA, this film celebrates the genius and sensibility of two icons of the XX century.
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Pier Paolo Pasolini e i confini - Memorie a est del corsaro del novecento
Title: Pier Paolo Pasolini e i confini - Memorie a est del corsaro del novecento
Released: December 27, 2015
Type: Movie
A documentary that recounts the impressively lucid visions and gazes with which Pasolini described and experienced the lands from his Casarsa eastward, through Idria, the Grado lagoon and finally Istria. The border, understood as a physical, historical and geographic but also metaphorical limit, is an interesting key to recount Pasolini's life: a journey that allows us to tell some lesser-known sides of the life of a great intellectual of the last century, who with keen anticipation glimpsed profound truths about the cultural and social changes taking place.
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Pasolini - Il corpo e la voce
Title: Pasolini - Il corpo e la voce
Released: October 24, 2015
Type: Movie
Interactive documentary about Pier Paolo Pasolini.
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Pasolini maestro corsaro
Title: Pasolini maestro corsaro
Released: January 1, 2015
Type: Movie
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Io sono nata viaggiando
Title: Io sono nata viaggiando
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: November 11, 2013
Type: Movie
A journey back through Dacia Maraini's and her trips around the world with her close friends cinema director Pier Paolo Pasolini and opera singer Maria Callas. An in-depth story of this fascinating woman's life. Maraini's memories come alive through personal photographs taken on the road as well as her own Super 8 films shot almost thirty years ago.
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Pasolini's Last Words
Title: Pasolini's Last Words
Character: Self (archive)
Released: January 2, 2012
Type: Movie
This elegiac essay explores the year leading up to Pier Paolo Pasolini's murder in 1975. Through staging scenes from his last, unfinished novel, to exploring his polemical essays, and his first and last film, this experimental biography documents the final words of one of the most important filmmakers of the 20th century.
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La Rabbia di Pasolini
Title: La Rabbia di Pasolini
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: September 5, 2008
Type: Movie
An attempt to reconstruct the complete version of Pier Paolo Pasolini's segment of La rabbia.
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Il falso bugiardo
Title: Il falso bugiardo
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: July 3, 2008
Type: Movie
Based upon Vincenzoni's biography, "Pane e cinema", the documentary traces the story of the screen play writer who invented many stories that became blockbusters throughout the world.
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La rabbia 1, la rabbia 2, la rabbia 3... l'Arabia
Title: La rabbia 1, la rabbia 2, la rabbia 3... l'Arabia
Released: January 1, 2008
Type: Movie
The story of La Rabbia by Pier Paolo Pasolini and Giovanni Guareschi, a movie lost in the archives of a laboratory in Rome, and recently re-discovered.
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Callas Assoluta
Title: Callas Assoluta
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: December 20, 2007
Type: Movie
This revealing documentary from director Philippe Kohly examines the storied life of renowned soprano Maria Callas, from her troubled childhood in New York City to her scandal-laden but triumphant international career in opera. Featuring archival interviews with Callas herself and footage of contemporaries such as her lover Aristotle Onassis, this celebration of "La Divina" pays tribute to her enduring legacy some three decades after her death.
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Pasolini prossimo nostro
Title: Pasolini prossimo nostro
Character: Se stesso
Released: November 24, 2006
Type: Movie
We are on the set of "Salò or the 120 days of Sodom". Pasolini lets a small camera team led by the journalist Gideon Bachmann follow him around engaging him in a long and extraordinary interview/conversation. The interview turns into a long, clear-sighted and violent attack on society that accompanies photos of the set in a surprising juxtaposition of film and reality, revealing Pasolini's metaphorical portrait of modernity.
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Pasolini and the Secret Humiliation of Chaucer
Title: Pasolini and the Secret Humiliation of Chaucer
Character: Interviewee (archive)
Released: June 30, 2006
Type: Movie
Documentary about the making of Pier Paolo Pasolini's The Canterbury Tales (1972), and particularly focusing on the many edits and cut scenes that were made before the film's release.
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Salò, l’ultimo film di Pier Paolo Pasolini
Title: Salò, l’ultimo film di Pier Paolo Pasolini
Released: January 1, 2005
Type: Movie
A sequence of unpublished photographs by Deborah Beer taken during the filming of the torture scenes on the set of "Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom" is accompanied by the voice - recorded by Gideon Bachmann - of Pier Paolo Pasolini who directs the actors: a portrait of the director and his way of working that testifies its determined and passionate “filmmaking"
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Via Pasolini
Title: Via Pasolini
Character: Interviewee
Released: January 1, 2005
Type: Movie
A documentary featuring archival footage of Pasolini discussing his views on language, film, and modern society.
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Visioni della Medea (tracce di un film sognato)
Title: Visioni della Medea (tracce di un film sognato)
Released: January 1, 2004
Type: Movie
Some of the scenes cut from the final editing of Medea by Pier Paolo Pasolini, fortunately found by L’Officina - a historic Roman film club born in the 1970s - on the initiative of Cinemazero in Pordenone have been preserved and digitized at the Cineteca del Friuli. These materials, with the care of the Pasolini scholar Luciano De Giusti, have been reassembled, accompanied by texts / readings and original music by Paolo Corberi: here are the "Visions of the Medea (traces of a dreamed film)", now a very important document to reconstruct the creative process of production and reliving the poetic / lyrical aura of the film's protagonists and places, including the lagoon of Grado (GO).
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Salò: Yesterday and Today
Title: Salò: Yesterday and Today
Released: October 24, 2002
Type: Movie
A thirty-three-minute documentary featuring interviews with director Pier Paolo Pasolini, actor-filmmaker Jean-Claude Biette, and Pasolini friend Ninetto Davoli.
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Bernardo Bertolucci: What Is the Purpose of Cinema?
Title: Bernardo Bertolucci: What Is the Purpose of Cinema?
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: August 10, 2002
Type: Movie
It is a chronological compilation of film clips, awards ceremonies and brief period interviews gathered by journalist Sandro Lai.
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Pasolini, el poeta en la playa
Title: Pasolini, el poeta en la playa
Character: Archive footage
Released: November 30, 2000
Type: Movie
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Federico Fellini's Autobiography
Title: Federico Fellini's Autobiography
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: September 5, 2000
Type: Movie
Federico Fellini was one of the most individual and thought provoking directors who based most of his films upon his own reflections, dreams, life events and fantasies, who did not convey any special message for humanity but regarded cinema simply as entertainment. Is there an answer to everything? Can it possibly be? If yes, then life can no longer be so curious, so dynamic, so creative...
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Reunion; Salo
Title: Reunion; Salo
Character: Himself (Archive)
Released: January 1, 1998
Type: Movie
Artist Adam Chodzko seeks to reunite the actors and actresses who played the victims in the film, Salo.
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Fioretti de Pier Paolo Pasolini 1922/1975
Title: Fioretti de Pier Paolo Pasolini 1922/1975
Character: Lui-même
Released: January 16, 1997
Type: Movie
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Non al denaro non all'amore né al cielo
Title: Non al denaro non all'amore né al cielo
Released: November 21, 1995
Type: Movie
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The Ashes of Pasolini
Title: The Ashes of Pasolini
Released: February 12, 1994
Type: Movie
Lyrical and fascinating documentary about Pier Paolo Pasolini. The film includes well-chosen fragments from his oeuvre and many unknown interviews with the sharply-quipping master, dug up in the Italian TV archives.
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Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema
Title: Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1985
Type: Movie
A documentary about the Italian cinema as art form and industry.
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My Name Is Anna Magnani
Title: My Name Is Anna Magnani
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: September 30, 1980
Type: Movie
Traces the life of Anna Magnani, her creations, her successes, her triumphs, her boycotted career, her nonconformism, her anxieties, her generosity ... Punctuated with photos that tell her career in theater and cinema, Extracts of films, this documentary portrait also gives the floor to his friends and relatives, from Roberto Rossellini to Marcello Mastroianni, through Federico Fellini.
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Pier Paolo Pasolini : vivre et encore plus
Title: Pier Paolo Pasolini : vivre et encore plus
Character: Lui-même
Released: February 3, 1976
Type: Movie
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Notes Towards an African Orestes
Title: Notes Towards an African Orestes
Character: Self (uncredited)
Released: November 29, 1975
Type: Movie
The director presents takes and scenes filmed on location in Africa for a film-that-never-was, a black Oresteia.
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The Walls of Sana'a
Title: The Walls of Sana'a
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: June 20, 1974
Type: Movie
The capital of Yemen, the city of Sana'a, holds an important part of history within its walls filled with medieval architecture and culture. But that same culture was about to disappear with the country's modernization which came after the civil war in the 1960's. To impeach such modern invasion, director Pasolini pledges to UNESCO for the recognition of Sana'a as a World Heritage Site.
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Pasolini and the Form of the City
Title: Pasolini and the Form of the City
Character: Himself
Released: February 7, 1974
Type: Movie
Documentary about the Italian cities Orte and Sabaudia.
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The Canterbury Tales
Title: The Canterbury Tales
Character: Geoffrey Chaucer
Released: September 2, 1972
Type: Movie
Glimpses of Chaucer penning his famous work are sprinkled through this re-enactment of several of his stories.
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S.P.Q.R.
Title: S.P.Q.R.
Released: July 10, 1972
Type: Movie
In this movie, director Volker Koch wants to reveal "petty-bourgeois fixations of consciousness and late capitalist myths of happiness". The protagonists: an American hustler, a drama student, a Munich waitress and her boyfriend who hope for money, a career and luck from a trip to Rome together.
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The Decameron
Title: The Decameron
Character: Allievo di Giotto
Released: August 25, 1971
Type: Movie
A young Sicilian is swindled twice, but ends up rich; a man poses as a deaf-mute in a convent of curious nuns; a woman must hide her lover when her husband comes home early; a scoundrel fools a priest on his deathbed; three brothers take revenge on their sister's lover; a young girl sleeps on the roof to meet her boyfriend at night; a group of painters wait for inspiration; a crafty priest attempts to seduce his friend's wife; and two friends make a pact to find out what happens after death.
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Pier Paolo Pasolini: A Film Maker's Life
Title: Pier Paolo Pasolini: A Film Maker's Life
Character: Self
Released: June 1, 1971
Type: Movie
Documentary about Italian movie director Pier Paolo Pasolini, with interviews with some of his actors and friends.
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Notes for a Film in India
Title: Notes for a Film in India
Character: Self
Released: August 18, 1968
Type: Movie
A 1968 short documentary film by Pier Paolo Pasolini where he visits India in the search of a king who could give up his body to feed a starving tiger.
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Oedipus Rex
Title: Oedipus Rex
Character: High Priest (uncredited)
Released: September 7, 1967
Type: Movie
In pre-war Italy, a young couple have a baby boy. The father, however, is jealous of his son - and the scene moves to antiquity, where the baby is taken into the desert to be killed. He is rescued, given the name Edipo (Oedipus), and brought up by the King and Queen of Corinth as their son. One day an oracle informs Edipo that he is destined to kill his father and marry his mother. Horrified, he flees Corinth and his supposed parents - only to get into a fight and kill an older man on the road…
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Kill and Pray
Title: Kill and Pray
Character: Father Juan
Released: March 10, 1967
Type: Movie
A Mexican community is slaughtered by Confederate troops; the lone survivor, a boy, is taken in by a preacher. Years later, the boy is now a soft-spoken, devout young man with perfect shooting skills (despite being a pacifist). On his journey to help his half-sister out of a complicated situation, he crosses paths with the men who killed his family, unbeknownst to him.
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Pasolini interviews Ezra Pound
Title: Pasolini interviews Ezra Pound
Character: Himself
Released: January 1, 1967
Type: Movie
Ezra Pound, an acclaimed modern American poet living in Rapallo, was tried for treason because of his radio broadcasts extolling Mussolini. This is Pasolini's interview with him.
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Cinéma et Réalité
Title: Cinéma et Réalité
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1967
Type: Movie
In this documentary, giants of italian cinema such as Rossellini, De Sica, Fellini and Zavattini talk about the importance of cinema after WW2, and about huge moments of social rebellion. This movie gives the floor to the creators of italian neorealism.
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Pier Paolo Pasolini: Primo piano. Personaggi e problemi dell'Italia d'oggi
Title: Pier Paolo Pasolini: Primo piano. Personaggi e problemi dell'Italia d'oggi
Character: Himself
Released: January 1, 1967
Type: Movie
Portrait of Pier Paolo Pasolini and his literary and cinematographic activity in the proletarian Rome.
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Notes from a Critofilm
Title: Notes from a Critofilm
Released: May 1, 1966
Type: Movie
Reflections on the first films of Pier Paolo Pasolini with his considerations on the real language of cinema.
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Scouting in Palestine
Title: Scouting in Palestine
Character: Self (uncredited)
Released: July 11, 1965
Type: Movie
In 1963, accompanied by a newsreel photographer and a Catholic priest, Piero Paolo Pasolini traveled to Palestine to investigate the possibility of filming his biblical epic The Gospel According to Matthew in its approximate historical locations. Edited by The Gospel‘s producer for potential funders and distributors, Seeking Locations in Palestine features semi-improvised commentary from Pasolini as its only soundtrack. As we travel from village to village, we listen to Pasolini’s idiosyncratic musings on the teachings of Christ and witness his increasing disappointment with the people and landscapes he sees before him. Israel, he laments, is much too modern. The Palestinians, much too wretched; it would be impossible to believe the teachings of Jesus had reached these faces. The Gospel According to Matthew was ultimately filmed in Southern Italy. Mel Gibson would use some of the same locations forty years later for The Passion of the Christ.
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Love Meetings
Title: Love Meetings
Character: Self - Interviewer (uncredited)
Released: July 5, 1965
Type: Movie
Pier Paolo Pasolini sets out to interview Italians about sex, apparently their least favorite thing to talk about in public: he asks children if they know where do babies come from; asks old and young women if they support gender equality; asks both sexes if a woman's virginity still matters, what do they think of homosexuality, if divorce should be legal, or if they support the recent abolition of brothels. He interviews blue-collar workers, intellectuals, college students, rural farmers, the bourgeoisie, and every other kind of people, painting a vivid portrait of a rapidly-industrializing Italy, hanging between modernity and tradition — toward both of which Pasolini shows equal distrust.
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The Hunchback
Title: The Hunchback
Character: Monco
Released: November 30, 1960
Type: Movie
Alvaro Cosenza, also known as the Hunchback from Quarticciolo, during Rome's occupation by Nazis in 1943, decides to revolt.
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Second Look: Fellini
Title: Second Look: Fellini
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1960
Type: Movie
A four-part documentary series about the Italian director Federico Fellini. Episode 1: His Childhood, His Beginnings; Episode 2: His First Films; Episode 3: His Films with Giulietta Masina; Episode 4: "La dolce vita" and Neorealism.