Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom

Pier Paolo Pasolini (director)
Marquis de Sade (novel)
Paolo Bonacelli, Aldo Valletti, Caterina Boratto, Elsa De Giorgi (starring)

N.p. Produzioni Europee Associate, 1975. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1975 film, showing director Pier Paolo Pasolini atop a ladder, adjusting a small hand-held camera.

Four wealthy, corrupt libertines kidnap a group of teenagers from the Italian countryside and perform violent, sadistic acts of torture on them for four months. Pasolini's final film, set during the last days of fascist rule in Italy, and inspired by the writings of Dante, Friedrich Nietzsche, and the Marquis de Sade.

7.74 x 11.75 inches. Near Fine.

BFI 1114. Criterion Collection 17. Godard, Histoire(s) du cinema.


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