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SALO (or The 120 Days of Sodom): The Criterion Collection [2-disc Special Edition]

DVD/APPROX. 112 MINS./1975/US NR

Main feature:

Release Aug 26, 2008
Video Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Anamorphic - Enhanced for Widescreen TVs.
Audio Italian: Dolby Digital 1.0
Subtitles English
Studio Criterion/Voyager
Year 1975
Genre Drama, Adult

Special features:

  • For Mature Audiences only
  • Presented on 2 discs
  • Remastered Audio and Video (New, restored high-definition digital transfer)
  • The End of Salo, a 40-minute documentary about the film’s final scene
  • Salo: Yesterday and Today, a 35-minute documentary featuring interviews with Pier Paolo Pasolini, actor-filmmaker Jean-Claude Biette, and Pasolini’s friend Nineto Davoli
  • New interviews with set designer Dante Ferretti and filmmaker/film scholar Jean-Pierre Gorin
  • Optional English-dubbed soundtrack
  • Theatrical trailer
  • Optional English subtitles
  • PLUS: A Booklet featuring new essays by Neil Bartlett, Roberto Chiesi, Naomi Greene, Gary Indiana, and Sam Rohdie, and excerpts from Gideon Bachman’s on-set diary

Synopsis:


SALO - or The 120 Days of Sodom

A very loose adaptation of the Marquis DeSade's 120 Days of Sodom as transformed to film by Pier Paolo Pasolini, and perhaps the most disturbing and disgusting film ever made. It is also one of the most important due to it's blistering critique of fascism and idealism.

Pier Paolo Pasolini's notorious final film 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 18th-century opus of torture and degradation to 1944 Fascist Italy remains one of the most passionately debated films of all time, a thought-provoking inquiry into the political, social, and sexual dynamics that define the world we live in.

Cast and Crew:

Criterion/Voyager presents
Umberto P. QuintavalleSonia SaviangeHelene SurgereAldo VallettiInes PellegriniPaolo BonacelliCaterina BorattoGiorgio CataldiElsa De Giorgi"SALO (or The 120 Days of Sodom): The Criterion Collection"
Written byPier Paolo PasoliniWritten bySergio CittiWritten byPupi Avatiproduced byAlberto Grimaldi
produced byAntonio Girasante
produced byAlberto De Stefanis
directed byPier Paolo Pasolini
Production Year: 1975

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