NOTES FOR A FILM ON INDIA
Italy, 1968
Original title: Appunti per un film sull’india
Director:Pier Paolo Pasolini. Story and screenplay: Pier Paolo Pasolini. Collaboration: Gianni Barcelloni. Camera operators: Federico Zanni, Roberto Nappa. Editor: Jenner Menghi. Production: RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana. Length: 34’.
Format: DVD. Under licence from Rai Teche. PERFEZIONARE CREDITS
Original version.
Diary of the location hunting carried out in India to verify the feasibility of a film inspired by a legend: a maharajah donates his body to save some tiger cubs who risk dying of hunger. The reflections on the project are intertwined with the historical-political ones on the Indian world: interviews with workers, peasants, “untouchables” and intellectuals.
“I am not interested in the documentary intended as a news report. Apart from a few articles in newspapers from many years ago, I have never been a journalist and I don’t even know how to do it. What I am touring for Tv7 is just my location hunting, my notes, that is, on a film to be made about India: (..) the documentary that will come out will be just this. ” (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
Friday 29 April 2022, h. 8:45 pm