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Notes for an African Orestes ( Italy 1970 )

Color: Documentary, B&W, 73’

Direction: Pier Paolo Pasolini

Screenplay: Pier Paolo Pasolini

Director of Photography: Giorgio Pelloni, Mario Bagnato, Emore Galeassi

Music: Gato Barbieri

Editing: Cleofe Conversi

Cast: Gato Barbieri, Donald F. Moye, Marcello Melis, Yvonne Murray, Archie Savage, Pier Paolo Pasolini

Production: Gian Vittorio Baldi e IDI Cinematografica, I film dell’Orso

Synopsis

A modern version of Aeschylus’ tragedy written in the tormented body of an Africa which remains tribal despite the emergence of the first signs of modernity. The transformation of the Furies that Pasolini decides to evoke in the form of trees into Eumenides, therefore foreshadows the conversion and pacification of the ancestral roots of Africa.

Réalisateur

Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) writer, poet, filmmaker, One of the most significant intellectuals of the twentieth century. His first novel, Ragazzi di vita in 1955, earned him fame but also scandal. After being assistant, he directs Accatone (1961), Mamma Roma (1962) La Ricotta (1963), The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964), awarded in Venice, Salo or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975) inspired by the book of Sade and located in the fascist era.