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 poet, film director, writer, 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. He is known for directing The Gospel According to St. Matthew, the films from Trilogy of Life (The Decameron, The Canterbury Tales and Arabian Nights) and Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Pier Paolo Pasolini is the 13th most popular film director (down from 12th in 2019), the 221st most popular biography from Italy (down from 138th 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."

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Pier Paolo Pasolini ranks 13 out of 2,041. Before him are Ingmar Bergman, Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, Sergei Eisenstein, Roman Polanski, and D. W. Griffith. After him are Woody Allen, Pedro Almodóvar, Leni Riefenstahl, Ridley Scott, Bernardo Bertolucci, and Luchino Visconti.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Pier Paolo Pasolini ranks 4. Before him are Kurt Vonnegut, José Saramago, and Yitzhak Rabin. After him are Christopher Lee, Judy Garland, Stan Lee, Hiroo Onoda, Norodom Sihanouk, Franjo Tuđman, Thomas Kuhn, and Boutros Boutros-Ghali. Among people deceased in 1975, Pier Paolo Pasolini ranks 7. Before him are Haile Selassie, Chiang Kai-shek, Francisco Franco, Hannah Arendt, Dmitri Shostakovich, and Ivo Andrić. After him are Umm Kulthum, Aristotle Onassis, Faisal of Saudi Arabia, Robert Robinson, Otto Skorzeny, and Josephine Baker.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Pier Paolo Pasolini ranks 221 out of 5,161. Before him are Didius Julianus (133), Pope Alexander I (100), Pope John XIX (975), Vincenzo Bellini (1801), Gina Lollobrigida (1927), and Carlo Collodi (1826). After him are Pope Pius I (90), Plautus (-254), Giuseppe Meazza (1910), Pope John VIII (820), Giorgione (1478), and Terence Hill (1939).

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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 Bernardo Bertolucci (1941), Luchino Visconti (1906), Sergio Leone (1929), Michelangelo Antonioni (1912), Vittorio De Sica (1901), Tinto Brass (1933), Roberto Rossellini (1906), Frank Capra (1897), Franco Zeffirelli (1923), and Dario Argento (1940).

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