Whoever Says the Truth Shall Die

Feb 28, 1981

1h 0m

★ 4.9

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.

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

VARA

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Cast

Self- archive footage

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Self - writer

Alberto Moravia

Self

Laura Betti

Self - writer

Maria Antonietta Macciocchi

Self

Bernardo Bertolucci

Self - Pier Paolo Pasolini family's lawyer

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