Who Killed Pasolini?
| Who Killed Pasolini? | |
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| Directed by | Marco Tullio Giordana |
| Written by | Enzo Siciliano (novel) Marco Tullio Giordana |
| Produced by | Vittorio Cecchi Gori Rita Rusic |
| Starring | Claudio Amendola Carlo De Filippi Nicoletta Braschi |
| Cinematography | Franco Lecca |
| Edited by | Cecilia Zanuso |
| Music by | Ennio Morricone |
| Distributed by | Variety Distribution |
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Running time | 100 minutes |
| Countries | Italy France |
| Language | Italian |
Pasolini, un delitto italiano (Pasolini, an Italian Crime), internationally released as Who Killed Pasolini?, is a 1995 Italian crime-drama film co-written and directed by Marco Tullio Giordana. It was released on 3 July 1996. It depicts the trial against Pino Pelosi, who was charged with the murder of artist and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini.
The film entered the competition at the 52nd Venice International Film Festival, in which Giordana won the President of the Italian Senate's gold medal. The film also won the David di Donatello for best editing.
The film explores the doubts of the case through court investigations, archival images, and dramatization, which reflect the social corruption and political intrigue in Italy at the time.
The film is a narrative fusion of documentary and feature film techniques while exploring how "truth" is constructed and manipulated through editing. In addition, the film's release brought public attention to the Pasolini case and led to the reopening of the investigation.