FILM DIRECTOR

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 film director, poet, writer, and intellectual, who also distinguished himself as an actor, journalist, novelist, playwright, and political figure. A controversial personality in Italy due to his straightforward style, Pasolini's legacy remains contentious. He voiced strong criticism of petty bourgeois values and the emerging consumerism in Italy, juxtaposing socio-political polemics with a critical examination of taboo sexual matters. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pier Paolo Pasolini has received more than 2,843,758 page views. His biography is available in 73 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 69 in 2019). Pier Paolo Pasolini is the 13th most popular film director (up from 15th in 2019), the 159th most popular biography from Italy (down from 157th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular 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."

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Pier Paolo Pasolini ranks 13 out of 1,581. Before him are Ingmar Bergman, Hayao Miyazaki, Woody Allen, Ridley Scott, Sergei Eisenstein, and Roman Polanski. After him are Luchino Visconti, Luis Buñuel, Andrei Tarkovsky, Jean-Luc Godard, Sergio Leone, and Francis Ford Coppola.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Pier Paolo Pasolini ranks 4. Before him are José Saramago, Stan Lee, and Yitzhak Rabin. After him are Thomas Kuhn, Christopher Lee, Judy Garland, Norodom Sihanouk, Ava Gardner, Pierre Cardin, Erich Hartmann, and Franjo Tuđman. Among people deceased in 1975, Pier Paolo Pasolini ranks 6. Before him are Francisco Franco, Hannah Arendt, Dmitri Shostakovich, Chiang Kai-shek, and Haile Selassie. After him are Ivo Andrić, Josephine Baker, Aristotle Onassis, Otto Skorzeny, Umm Kulthum, and Arnold J. Toynbee.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Pier Paolo Pasolini ranks 159 out of 4,668. Before him are Gaetano Donizetti (1797), Pope Pius VI (1717), Gina Lollobrigida (1927), Tomaso Albinoni (1671), Marcello Mastroianni (1924), and Pope Leo XI (1535). After him are Carlo Collodi (1826), Pope Clement XII (1652), Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632), Luchino Visconti (1906), Pope Benedict XIV (1675), and Gaius Marius (-157).

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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), Roberto Rossellini (1906), Vittorio De Sica (1901), Tinto Brass (1933), Franco Zeffirelli (1923), Frank Capra (1897), and Dario Argento (1940).

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Filmography

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