La macchinazione

In the summer of '75, Pier Paolo Pasolini is editing one of his most controversial movies "Salò". At the same time he is writing a book, containing a brave condemnation of a corrupt political and financial power. In those same days Pasolini is seeing a young man from the working-class suburbs of Rome, Pino Pelosi. Pasolini and Pelosi meet regularly becoming the talk of the roman suburbs. In these same suburbs move shady characters that have little to do with Pasolini's poetic view of life. When the negative of "Salò" is stolen from Technicolor's laboratory, a mortal trap is set for the director. In the night between the first and the second of November 1975, Pier Paolo Pasolini drives to retrieve his film. Truly, and possibly even consciously, he is going straight into an ambush: many accomplices, some willing and some unaware, all alike and all equally guilty, have planned his murder in every minimum detail. (Moscow International Film Festival)