THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST. MATTHEW
Italy, 1964
Original title: Il Vangelo secondo Matteo
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini. Story and screenplay: Pier Paolo Pasolini, based on the “Vangelo secondo Matteo”. Art director: Luigi Scaccianoce. Art director assistant: Dante Ferretti. Cinematographer: Tonino Delli Colli. Set designer: Andrea Fantacci. Editing: Nino Baragli. Music: Luis Bacalov, Johann Sebastian Bach, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Sergej Prokof’ev, Anton Webern, “Missa Luba” of Congo , spiritual and revolutionary Russian songs. Sound manager: Mario Del Pezzo. Costume designer: Danilo Donati. Cast and characters: Enrique Irazoqui (Jesus Christ dubbed by Enrico Maria Salerno), Margherita Caruso (young Mary), Susanna Pasolini (old Mary), Marcello Morante (Joseph), Mario Socrate (John the Baptist), Settimio Di Porto (Peter, Otello Sestili (Juda). Production: Arco Film (Roma) Lux Compagnie Cinématographique de France (Parigi). Length: 137’.
Source:DCP. Source: CSC – Cineteca Nazionale under licence from Movietime.
Original version. Subtitles: English
Restoration by CSC – Cineteca Nazionale
Set in southern Italy, the narration follows the text of the Gospel of Matthew, from the annunciation to Mary to the resurrection of Christ.
“My reading of the Gospel could only be the reading of a Marxist, but at the same time the fascination of the irrational, of the divine, which dominates the whole Gospel, spread within me. […] How could I have made Herod’s soldiers? To make them with big moustaches, grinding teeth, dressed in rags, like the choirs of the opera? No, I couldn’t do them like that. I dressed them a bit like fascists and I imagined them as fascist squads or as fascists killing Slavic children throwing them in the air. ” (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
Monday 23 May 2022, h. 6:00 pm
