Il Vangelo secondo Matteo [videorecording] / directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini ; produced by Alfredo Bini.

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmSeries: Pier Paolo Pasolini : a cinema of poetryPublication details: [Italy.] : Medusa Video, c c2003.Description: 1 videodisc (132 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 inSubject(s): LOC classification:
  • CM DVD 01131
Production credits:
  • Photography, Tonini Delli Colli ; music, Johann Sebastian Bach, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Sergej Prokofiev, Anton Webern ; original gospel text, Pro Civitate Christiana-Assisi ; original music score, Luis E. Bacalov ; voice of Christ, Enrico Maria Salerno.
Cast: Enrique Irazoqui, Margherita Caruso, Susanna Pasolini, Marcello Morante, Mario Socrate, Settimo di Porto, Otello Sestili, Ferruccio Nuzzo, Giacomo Morante, Alfonso Gatto.Summary: The film, which won a Special Jury Prize at the 1964 Venice Film Festival, is different from other cinematic depictions of the life of Christ in that there is no screenplay per se. Pasolini limited himself to the account by Matthew: only words written in his gospel are employed; no additional dialogue was written and only scenes described by Matthew are shown. Pasolini used no professional actors (his mother plays the older Mary) and he dedicated his film "to the dear familiar memory of John XXIII."
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DVD DVD Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Colección Multimedia (Humanidades 4to. Piso) CM DVD 01131 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000035301

DVD ; letterbox.

Italian

Enrique Irazoqui, Margherita Caruso, Susanna Pasolini, Marcello Morante, Mario Socrate, Settimo di Porto, Otello Sestili, Ferruccio Nuzzo, Giacomo Morante, Alfonso Gatto.

Photography, Tonini Delli Colli ; music, Johann Sebastian Bach, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Sergej Prokofiev, Anton Webern ; original gospel text, Pro Civitate Christiana-Assisi ; original music score, Luis E. Bacalov ; voice of Christ, Enrico Maria Salerno.

"Original uncut version" of the 1964 motion picture.

Special features include: documentary "Pier Paolo Pasolini."

The film, which won a Special Jury Prize at the 1964 Venice Film Festival, is different from other cinematic depictions of the life of Christ in that there is no screenplay per se. Pasolini limited himself to the account by Matthew: only words written in his gospel are employed; no additional dialogue was written and only scenes described by Matthew are shown. Pasolini used no professional actors (his mother plays the older Mary) and he dedicated his film "to the dear familiar memory of John XXIII."

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