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Sodoman 120 päivää

Original title: Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma
  • 19751975
  • K-18K-18
  • 1h 57m
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5.8/10
59K
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Sodoman 120 päivää (1975)
  • Drama
  • Horror
In World War II Italy, four fascist libertines round up nine adolescent boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of physical, mental, and sexual torture.In World War II Italy, four fascist libertines round up nine adolescent boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of physical, mental, and sexual torture.In World War II Italy, four fascist libertines round up nine adolescent boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of physical, mental, and sexual torture.
IMDb RATING
5.8/10
59K
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
362
29
  • Director
    • Pier Paolo Pasolini
  • Writers
    • Pier Paolo Pasolini
    • Sergio Citti(screenplay collaboration)
    • Pupi Avati(additional scriptwork)
  • Stars
    • Paolo Bonacelli
    • Giorgio Cataldi
    • Uberto Paolo Quintavalle
Top credits
  • Director
    • Pier Paolo Pasolini
  • Writers
    • Pier Paolo Pasolini
    • Sergio Citti(screenplay collaboration)
    • Pupi Avati(additional scriptwork)
  • Stars
    • Paolo Bonacelli
    • Giorgio Cataldi
    • Uberto Paolo Quintavalle
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    • 451User reviews
    • 186Critic reviews
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    • Awards
      • 2 wins & 1 nomination

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    Paolo Bonacelli, Giorgio Cataldi, Uberto Paolo Quintavalle, and Aldo Valletti in Sodoman 120 päivää (1975)
    Pier Paolo Pasolini in Sodoman 120 päivää (1975)
    Paolo Bonacelli, Giorgio Cataldi, Umberto Chessari, Elsa De Giorgi, Gaspare Di Jenno, Efisio Etzi, Guido Galletti, Rinaldo Missaglia, Giuseppe Patruno, Uberto Paolo Quintavalle, Hélène Surgère, and Aldo Valletti in Sodoman 120 päivää (1975)
    Graziella Aniceto, Lamberto Book, Caterina Boratto, Umberto Chessari, Dorit Henke, Faridah Malik, Franco Merli, Tatiana Mogilansky, Antiniska Nemour, Antonio Orlando, Sonia Saviange, and Hélène Surgère in Sodoman 120 päivää (1975)
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    Sodoman 120 päivää (1975)
    Sodoman 120 päivää (1975)
    Sodoman 120 päivää (1975)
    Sodoman 120 päivää (1975)
    Sodoman 120 päivää (1975)
    Sodoman 120 päivää (1975)
    Sodoman 120 päivää (1975)

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    Paolo Bonacelli
    Paolo Bonacelli
    • Il ducaas Il duca
    Giorgio Cataldi
    Giorgio Cataldi
    • Monsignoreas Monsignore
    Uberto Paolo Quintavalle
    Uberto Paolo Quintavalle
    • Eccellenzaas Eccellenza
    Aldo Valletti
    Aldo Valletti
    • Il presidenteas Il presidente
    Caterina Boratto
    Caterina Boratto
    • Signora Castellias Signora Castelli
    Elsa De Giorgi
    Elsa De Giorgi
    • Signora Maggias Signora Maggi
    Hélène Surgère
    Hélène Surgère
    • Signora Vaccarias Signora Vaccari
    • (as Helene Surgere)
    Sonia Saviange
    Sonia Saviange
    • La pianistaas La pianista
    Sergio Fascetti
    • Vittima (Maschio)as Vittima (Maschio)
    Bruno Musso
    • Carlo Porro - Vittima (Maschio)as Carlo Porro - Vittima (Maschio)
    Antonio Orlando
    • Tonino - Vittima (Maschio)as Tonino - Vittima (Maschio)
    Claudio Cicchetti
    • Vittima (Maschio)as Vittima (Maschio)
    Franco Merli
    Franco Merli
    • Vittima (Maschio)as Vittima (Maschio)
    Umberto Chessari
    • Vittima (Maschio)as Vittima (Maschio)
    Lamberto Book
    • Lamberto Gobbi - Vittima (Maschio)as Lamberto Gobbi - Vittima (Maschio)
    Gaspare Di Jenno
    • Rino - Vittima (Maschio)as Rino - Vittima (Maschio)
    Giuliana Melis
    • Vittima (Femmina)as Vittima (Femmina)
    Faridah Malik
    • Fatimah - Vittima (Femmina)as Fatimah - Vittima (Femmina)
    • Director
      • Pier Paolo Pasolini
    • Writers
      • Pier Paolo Pasolini
      • Sergio Citti(screenplay collaboration)
      • Pupi Avati(additional scriptwork) (uncredited)
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    In Nazi-Fascist Northern Italy in 1943-44, four senior members of government, aided by henchmen and Nazi soldiers, kidnap a group of young men and women. They hold them for 120 days, subjecting them to all manner of torture, perversion, and degradation. —Killerghost
    • banned film
    • sexual torture
    • voyeur
    • masturbation
    • sexual cruelty
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      • Banned in Australia for 17 years - Now for the first time Australian audiences have the opportunity to judge one of the most controversial films in the history of cinema. A work of rigorous moral intelligence or a descent into a nightmare of cruelty and lust? (1993)
    • Genres
      • Drama
      • Horror
    • Certificate
      • K-18
    • Parents guide

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    • Trivia
      Salo is a town in northern Italy which Benito Mussolini's Fascist government effectively made their capital from 1943 until they fell from power in 1945. The place had particular relevance for Pier Paolo Pasolini because his brother was killed there.
    • Goofs
      When the Duke kisses several victims during Sergio and Renata's wedding, some victims and Ezio begin to laugh, off the character.
    • Quotes

      The President: [while eating a meal of feces] Carlo, do this with your fingers.

      [the President sticks two fingers in his mouth]

      The President: And say, "I can't eat rice with my fingers like this."

      Male Victim: [with fingers in his mouth] I can't eat rice.

      The President: Then eat shit, you little bastard.

    • Crazy credits
      Essential Bibliography: Roland Barthes: 'Sade, Fourier, Loyola' (Editions du Seuil); Maurice Blanchot: "Lautréamont et Sade' (Editions de Minuit; in Italy Dedalo Libri); Simone de Beauvoir: 'Faut-il brûler Sade' (Editions Gaimard); Pierre Klossowski: 'Sade mon prochain, le philosophe scélérat' (Editions du Seuil; in Italy SugarCo Edizioni); Philippe Sollers: 'L'écriture et l'experience des limites' (Editions du Seuil)
    • Alternate versions
      The film was rejected for cinema by the BBFC in 1976 and a private showing of the uncut version at the Old Compton Cinema Club in London's Soho resulted in a police raid and confiscation of the movie. A heavily edited version - minus 6 minutes of footage including scenes of torture, homosexuality and excrement eating, and including a 4 minute prologue describing the history of the town of Salo - was later prepared by UK censor James Ferman for club showings. The film was finally passed completely uncut for cinema and video in the UK in December 2000.
    • Connections
      Edited into Histoire(s) du cinéma: Une histoire seule (1989)
    • Soundtracks
      Prelude in C minor
      (uncredited)

      Composed by Frédéric Chopin

    User reviews451

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    Not a Film about Fascism at all
    Pasolini made it quite clear in several texts that this is not an anti-fascist film, but rather that fascism is a symbol for something far more pervasive. He ultimately saw himself as a committed director, and thus all of his historical films are about the present, and this film was made in the 70's, not in the 40's. It is rather an anti-bourgeois film. (Pasolini's political enemies at the time were not fascists at all, but the Christian Democrats)...Furthermore it is NOT a defense of Sade, but an apology for his earlier writings and films which mythicized acts of violence and glorified them as the pure, unconscious, pre-verbal expression of the subproletariat. However Pasolini saw the riots of the bourgeois students in 1968 as nihilistic acts of revolt, not revolution--a revolt of the Bourgeoise against itself, as his poetry makes clear. He watched in horror as he saw his vision of true revolution twisted into a childish and merely destructive tantrum against the previous generation. And so it is the Bourgeoise, symbolized by Fascism, which he represents and condemns in Salo, in the guise of what he considered to be a medieval morality play. And it is in this context that he apologizes for having made statements like "Only a bloodbath can save the world" (1962), which is quoted in the film. Yet, like everything else, it has been appropriated by the bourgeoise, who misinterpret it first as Nietzsche, then as St. Paul, until it gets reduced to a merely absurdist Dada interpretation. The characters are continually misinterpreting the many structuralist citations, because they have no history. History has been destroyed, and thus Pasolini is trying to re-introduce it in the film. The revolution, by 1968, was impossible, as there was nobody left to fight it. The bourgeoise, Pasolini lamented, had subsumed everything into itself-there was no "other", only a technological god-like and all-inclusive power structure. But what is most shocking is that it is the Sadean libertarianism and the permissivness of that class that Pasolini finds most disturbing. He held that the permissiveness of the "anarchy of power" was more tyrannical than repression. He was most traumitized, oddly, by the increasing tolerance of homosexuals. And so truely Pasolini takes the side of Dante, not Sade. And finally, its ultimately a film about misinterpretation. What the characters say and what they do (as in Sade) are incongruent. He knew that he was to be misunderstood by his Bourgeois audience, as it misunderstood itself, Pasolini said that it was intrinsic that Salo remain enigmatic (on the model of Dante), and this is the film's real genius. Judging by most of these reviews, Pasolini made his point.
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    • Release date
      • February 9, 2001 (Finland)
    • Countries of origin
      • Italy
      • France
    • Languages
      • Italian
      • French
      • German
    • Also known as
      • Salò eller Sodoms 120 dagar
    • Filming locations
      • Salò, Brescia, Lombardia, Italy
    • Production companies
      • Produzioni Europee Associate (PEA)
      • Les Productions Artistes Associés
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    • Gross worldwide
      • $1,808,595
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    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 57 minutes
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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