Pier Paolo Pasolini

Pier Paolo Pasolini 1922, Bologna – 1975, Ostie, near Rome. After spending his childhood in various cities in northern Italy due to his father's transfers as an infantry officer, he enrolled in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Bologna at the age of just 17. This painter and poet made his directorial debut in 1960 and went on to make almost a film a year, including the legendary Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964) as well as Oedipus Rex (1967) and Theorem (1968). In 1975, the year his controversial masterpiece Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom was released, Pasolini was brutally murdered in a vacant lot under mysterious circumstances.