Starring: Hélène Surgère, Elsa de Giorgi, Paolo Bonacelli, Giorgio Cataldi, Sonia Saviange, Ines Pellegrini, Uberto P. Quintavalle, Carla Terlizzi, Caterina Boratto, Aldo Valetti

Directed by: Pier Paolo Pasolini

Pasolini's last, hugely controversial work is a graphic, unsparing adaptation of the Marquis de Sade's novel. Updated to 1944, the film is set in Salo, a minature Fascist Republic that survived as the rest of Italy was surrendering to the Allies. Sixteen youths are abducted and taken to a palace where they are subjected to various forms of torture and degredation overseen by a group of Fascists. Pasolini described his final testament as "a mad dream". Uncut.

DVD EXTRAS

Director's foreward (read by Nickolas Grace), Pasolini biography, Weblink, Poster gallery.

Technical Details

Certification: 18
Duration: 112 mins
Format: DVD
Single Sided/Single Layer
Region: 2
Aspect Ratio: 1.85 Wide Screen
Cat. No: BFIVD510(BFI VIDEO PUBLISHING)
Subtitles: English

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