Pasolini, cronologia di un delitto politico

The documentary is an investigation into the story of Pier Paolo Pasolini alive and the politica! truth of his murder. An itinerary from 1960 to 1975 on his life as a poet, artist, journalist and his politica! commitment as a cultura I agitator. On 2 November 1975, Pasolini is murdered at the Idroscalo in Ostia. Seventeen-year-old Giuseppe Pelosi accused himself of the murder. The press and media spread the news. Everything suggests or everyone must think that Pasolini died ‘of a death sought’. Sacrificed to a fate he had prophesied. A violent death in the world of homosexual prostitution. Deemphasized to a crime story. A prevalence that deprives the value that his life and his commitment had as a criticai opposition to a power, very clear in its tragic effects, a power without a face, even though the whole thing was staged in a democratic republic. A power that through terror operated inexorably a profound and irreversible change in society. In the film, a multiplicity of voices, testimonies and points of view that are not always aligned, sometimes in contradiction, draw an articulated plot with contours that are anything but defined. What happened to the testimonies of the inhabitants of the Idroscalo? Many gave statements about what they saw or heard that night. There were three cars in the Idroscalo field, not one as they said. Six or seven were the aggressors as they shouted for help. Why did the ‘concurrence with unknown persons’ of the first degree disappear in the Appeal and Cassation sentences? Pier Paolo Pasolini clashed with that anti-democratic apparatus that acted through massacres; he understood its strategy, its objectives, the agreements between its protagonists and was killed for what he knew, for what he understood and wrote. His martyrdom was ‘spectacularised’ and the persuasive deception that followed obliviously, or at least attentive, to his message. Pasolini not only had to die, but he also had to be forgotten, erased forever.