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Pier Paolo Pasolini

1922 - 1975

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Pier Paolo Pasolini (Italian: [ˈpjɛr ˈpaːolo pazoˈliːni]; 5 March 1922 – 2 November 1975) was an Italian poet, film director, writer, screenwriter, actor and playwright. He is considered one of the defining public intellectuals in 20th-century Italian history, influential both as an artist and a political figure. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pier Paolo Pasolini has received more than 3,780,318 page views. His biography is available in 76 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 73 in 2019). Pier Paolo Pasolini is the 12th most popular film director (up from 13th in 2019), the 138th most popular biography from Italy (up from 158th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Italian Film Director.

Pier Paolo Pasolini was a poet, novelist, filmmaker, and intellectual. He is most famous for his film "The Gospel According to St. Matthew."

Memorability Metrics

  • 3.8M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 75.57

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 76

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.90

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.55

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Pier Paolo Pasolinis by language

Over the past year Pier Paolo Pasolini has had the most page views in the with 585,101 views, followed by Italian (479,084), and Spanish (171,029). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Romansh (58,850.00%), Thai (318.60%), and Cantonese (297.45%)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Pier Paolo Pasolini ranks 12 out of 2,041. Before him are Federico Fellini, Stanley Kubrick, Akira Kurosawa, Woody Allen, Roman Polanski, and Ridley Scott. After him are Sergei Eisenstein, Luis Buñuel, Andrei Tarkovsky, Leni Riefenstahl, Wim Wenders, and Luchino Visconti.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Pier Paolo Pasolini ranks 3. Before him are Yitzhak Rabin, and José Saramago. After him are Joan Fuster, Christopher Lee, Stan Lee, Norodom Sihanouk, Judy Garland, Franjo Tuđman, Pierre Cardin, Thomas Kuhn, and Boutros Boutros-Ghali. Among people deceased in 1975, Pier Paolo Pasolini ranks 6. Before him are Francisco Franco, Hannah Arendt, Dmitri Shostakovich, Chiang Kai-shek, and Ivo Andrić. After him are Umm Kulthum, Aristotle Onassis, Otto Skorzeny, Haile Selassie, Josephine Baker, and Arnold J. Toynbee.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Pier Paolo Pasolini ranks 138 out of 5,161. Before him are Pope Urban VII (1521), Andrea del Verrocchio (1435), Pope Boniface VIII (1235), Pope Gregory IX (1160), Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632), and Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1526). After him are Cardinal Mazarin (1602), Enzo Ferrari (1898), Luca Pacioli (1445), Adriano Celentano (1938), Guillaume Apollinaire (1880), and Pope Pius VIII (1761).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Italy

Among film directors born in Italy, Pier Paolo Pasolini ranks 2. Before him are Federico Fellini (1920). After him are Luchino Visconti (1906), Sergio Leone (1929), Bernardo Bertolucci (1941), Michelangelo Antonioni (1912), Tinto Brass (1933), Vittorio De Sica (1901), Roberto Rossellini (1906), Frank Capra (1897), Franco Zeffirelli (1923), and Dario Argento (1940).

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Filmography

Accattone
Director
A pimp with no other means to provide for himself finds his life spiralling out of control when his prostitute is sent to prison.
Sep 25o 19617.7 / 10
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
Director
Four corrupted fascist libertines round up 9 teenage boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of sadistic physical, mental and sexual torture.
Jan 10o 19766.41 / 10
Mamma Roma
Director
After years spent working as a prostitute in her Italian village, middle-aged Mamma Roma has saved enough money to buy herself a fruit stand so that she can have a respectable middle-class life and reestablish contact with the 16-year-old son she abandoned when he was an infant. But her former pimp threatens to expose her sordid past, and her troubled son seems destined to fall into a life of crime and violence.
Sep 22o 19627.91 / 10