Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray]

Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray]

Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini Cast: Paolo Bonacelli
Paolo Bonacelli
, Giorgio Cataldi
Giorgio Cataldi
, Umberto Paolo Quintavalle
Umberto Paolo Quintavalle
, Caterina Boratto
Caterina Boratto
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray]

Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray]

Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini Cast: Paolo Bonacelli
Paolo Bonacelli
, Giorgio Cataldi
Giorgio Cataldi
, Umberto Paolo Quintavalle
Umberto Paolo Quintavalle
, Caterina Boratto
Caterina Boratto
Pier Paolo Pasolini

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Overview

The final work of notorious Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini, this film updates the Marquis de Sade's most extreme novel to fascist Italy in the final days of WW II. Dispensing with the novel's meditations on sexual liberation and the search for truth, Pasolini presents four decadents who kidnap dozens of young men and women and subject them to the most hideous forms of torture and perversion in an isolated villa. Rape, murder, and a coprophagic banquet are only the beginning of the atrocities on display. Photographed by Tonino Delli Colli, the film also features a lavish score by Ennio Morricone.

Product Details

Release Date: 10/04/2011
UPC: 0715515087414
Original Release: 1975
Rating: NR
Source: Criterion Collection
Language: English
Time: 1:56:00
Sales rank: 998

Special Features

"Salò": Yesterday and Today, a thirty-three minute Documentary featuring Interviews with Director Pier Paolo Pasolini, Actor-Filmmaker Jean-Claude Biette, and Pasolini friend Nineto Davoli; ; Fade to Black, a twenty-three-minute Documentary featuring Directors Bernardo Bertolucci, Catherine Breillat, and John Maybury, as well as scholar David Forgacs; ; The End of "Salò," a forty-minute Documentary about the film's production; ; Video Interviews with Set Designer Dante Ferretti and Director and Film Scholar Jean-Pierre Gorin; ; Theatrical Trailer; ; Plus: A Booklet Featuring essays by Neil Bartlett, Breillat, Naomi Greene, Sam Rohdie, Roberto Chiesi, and Gary Indiana, and excerpts from Gideon Bachman's on-set diary

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits
Paolo Bonacelli The Duke
Giorgio Cataldi The Bishop
Umberto Paolo Quintavalle Actor
Caterina Boratto Signora Castelli
Elsa DeGirogi Signora Vaccari
Hélène Surgère Signora Vaccari
Sonia Saviange The Piano Virtuoso
Sergio Fascetti Masked Victim
Bruno Musso Masked Victim
Ines Pellegrini The slavegirl
Antonio Orlando Masked Victim
Claudio Cicchetti Masked Victim
Franco Merli Masked Victim
Umberto Chessari Masked Victim
Lamberto Book Masked Victim
Gaspare DiJenno Masked Victim
Giuliana Melis Female Victim
Faridah Malik Female Victim
Graziella Aniceto Female Victim
Renata Moar Female Victim
Dorit Henke Female Victim
Antinisca Nemour Female Victim
Benedetta Gaetani Female Victim
Olga Andreis Female Victim
Tatiana Mogilansky Young Woman
Susanna Radaelli Young Woman
Giuliana Orlandi Young Woman
Liana Acquaviva Young Woman
Rinaldo Missaglia Young soldier
Giuseppe Patruno Young Soldier
Guido Galletti Young Soldier
Efioso Etzi Young Soldier
Claudio Troccoli Collaborator
Fabrizio Menichini Collaborator
Maurizio Valaguzza Collaborator
Ezio Manni Collaborator
Paola Pieracci Procuress/servant
Carla Terlizzi Procuress/servant
Anna Maria Dossena Procuress/servant
Anna Recchimuzzi Procuress/servant
Marco Bellocchio The President (Dubbed Voice)
Laura Betti Signora Vaccari (Dubbed Voice)
Michel Piccoli Voice of the Duke (French Version)
Caterina Bonacelli Actor
Ennio Morricone Composer

Technical Credits
Pier Paolo Pasolini Director,Screenwriter
Alberto Grimaldi Producer
Sergio Citti Screenwriter
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