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Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (Italian: Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma), billed on-screen as Pasolini's 120 Days of Sodom on English-language prints and commonly referred to as simply Salò (Italian:), is a 1975 political drama art horror film directed and co-written by Pier Paolo Pasolini.
Jan 10, 1976 · With Paolo Bonacelli, Giorgio Cataldi, Uberto Paolo Quintavalle, Aldo Valletti. In World War II Italy, four fascist libertines round up nine adolescent boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of physical, mental, and sexual torture.
Jun 12, 2023 · Director ...more. Four fascists kidnap young men and women and subject them to torture and perversion. Director Pier Paolo Pasolini Starring Paolo Bonacelli, Giorgio Cat...
Salò, or The 120 Days of Sodom. The notorious final film from Pier Paolo Pasolini, Salò, or The 120 Days of Sodom has been called nauseating, shocking, depraved, pornographic . . . It’s also a masterpiece. The controversial poet, novelist, and filmmaker’s transposition of the Marquis de Sade’s eighteenth-century opus of torture and ...
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom will strike some viewers as irredeemably depraved, but its unflinching view of human cruelty makes it impossible to ignore. Four fascists kidnap young men and...
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Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975) Pier Paolo Pasolini’s controversial adaptation of the Marquis de Sade’s novel, relocated to Benito Mussolini’s fascist republic. Watch and discover
In the northern Italian Republic of Salò, a Nazi-controlled puppet state, the town's four most wealthy, powerful, and decadent members--The Duke, The Bishop, The Magistrate, and The President--herd the finest specimens of young men and women into a palatial villa.
Among world cinema’s most infamous works, Pier Paolo Pasolini’s final film transposes the Marquis de Sade’s seminal 1785 novel about the depravity and perversity of the French ruling class to Italy in 1944, one year before Mussolini’s death and the end of World War II.
Oct 4, 2011 · Based on the Marquis de Sade’s most notorious book, The 120 Days of Sodom, Salò is not only Pasolini’s most “unacceptable” work but one of the most chilling films in the history of cinema.
Apr 21, 2016 · Pasolini sets the Marquis de Sade’s “120 Days of Sodom” in 1944-45, in a sumptuous villa in Mussolini’s Republic of Salò, the Nazi puppet regime of northern Italy, where four potentates ...
