biography
| name: |
Pasolini, Pier Paolo
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pronunciation:
[pasohleenee]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1922–75)
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| biography:
| Film director and writer, born in Bologna, N Italy. He became a Marxist following World War 2, moved to Rome, and began to write sordid novels of slum life in the city. In the 1950s he also worked as a scriptwriter and actor. He made his debut as a director in 1961, and became known for controversial, bawdy literary adaptations such as Il Vangelo secondo Matteo (1964, The Gospel According to St Matthew), Il Decamerone (1971, The Decameron), and The Canterbury Tales (1973). He was murdered, probably as the result of a homosexual encounter. |
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