Paolo Bonacelli
The Duke
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Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom will strike some viewers as irredeemably depraved, but its unflinching view of human cruelty makes it impossible to ignore. Four fascists kidnap young men and...
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Tragically, Pasolini was found brutally murdered weeks before the release of his final work, the grotesque, Marquis de Sade–derived Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975), still one of the world’s most controversial films.
Jun 12, 2023 · Director ...more. Four fascists kidnap young men and women and subject them to torture and perversion. Director Pier Paolo Pasolini Starring Paolo Bonacelli, Giorgio Cat...
In the northern Italian Republic of Salò, a Nazi-controlled puppet state, the town's four most wealthy, powerful, and decadent members--The Duke, The Bishop, The Magistrate, and The President--herd the finest specimens of young men and women into a palatial villa.
Apr 21, 2016 · Pasolini sets the Marquis de Sade’s “120 Days of Sodom” in 1944-45, in a sumptuous villa in Mussolini’s Republic of Salò, the Nazi puppet regime of northern Italy, where four potentates...
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom. Pier Paolo Pasolini’s final work, a controversial transposition of the Marquis de Sade’s novel to Benito Mussolini’s fascist republic of 1944, may prove too strong for some, with its explicit scenes of the humiliation and torture of young men and women by a group of wealthy, sadistic libertines. 1975 Italy, France.
117 minutes. Among world cinema’s most infamous works, Pier Paolo Pasolini’s final film transposes the Marquis de Sade’s seminal 1785 novel about the depravity and perversity of the French ruling class to Italy in 1944, one year before Mussolini’s death and the end of World War II.
