La macchinazione | |
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Directed by | David Grieco |
Screenplay by | Guido Bulla David Grieco |
Produced by | Marina Alessandra Marzotto Alice Buttafava Vincent Brançon Dominique Desforges Lionel Guedj |
Starring | Massimo Ranieri |
Cinematography | Fabio Zamarion |
Edited by | Francesco Bilotti |
Music by | Roger Waters |
Distributed by | Microcinema |
Release date |
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Running time | 115 minutes |
Country | Italy |
Language | Italian |
La macchinazione (The Plot) is a 2016 Italian biographical drama film directed by David Grieco, starring Massimo Ranieri and based on the last hours of Pier Paolo Pasolini's life before his murder. [1] [2]
Ranieri, who portrays Pasolini, met the poet when he was young and Pasolini himself was very surprised by the physical similarity between the two of them. [3]
In the summer of 1975, the writer and film director Pier Paolo Pasolini is completing his latest film Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom , and has started writing a political essay, Petrolio (Oil). [4] Meanwhile, he begins a dalliance with the young Giuseppe 'Pino' Pelosi, a rent boy with a criminal record. According to the film, the youngster and his accomplices steal some reels of Pasolini's latest film, which they offer to return in exchange for a large ransom. This is a trap, which leads to the director's brutal murder on 2 November 1975.
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