Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini
A segment from the anthology film RO.GO.PA.G, director Pier Paolo Pasolini’s absurdist scenario concerns a staging of the Passion Play, in which a poor extra, addicted to curd cheese, is cast as the Savior and perishes due to the indifference of others assembled; an oblique reference by Pasolini to the bankrupt ostentation of the Church.
Producer: Alberto Barsanti, Alfredo Bini, Angelo Rizzoli. Screenwriter: Pier Paolo Pasolini. Cinematographer: Tonino Delli Colli. Editor: Nino Baragli. Cast: Orson Welles, Mario Cipriani, Laura Betti, Edmonda Aldini, Vittorio La Paglia.
35mm, b/w and color, in Italian with English subtitles, 35 min.
Watch the trailer below.
