Pasolini Requiem

2009 • Directed by

Mario Verger

Documentary

Film made for the thirtieth anniversary of the writer's death. A tribute to the cinema and life of the famous director-writer through the most spectacular sequences, transforming Anna Magnani, Totò and Ninetto Davoli, Franco Franchi and Ciccio Ingrassia into cartoons. The film refers to Pasolini's youth in Friuli with the collection of poems "Le ceneri di Gramsci", then moving on to his arrival in Rome with clips referring to the novels "Ragazzi di vita" and "Una vita violenta", made with the most varied techniques, up to the final episode which took place on 2 November 1975 at the Idroscalo in Ostia regarding the tragic murder of a scandalous intellectual.