“Blue” details of director Pasolini’s biography were painted over black in the Russian Federation (VIDEO)

The Moscow publishing house AST censored the published biography of Italian film director Pier Paolo Pasolini, blacking out fragments of text regarding his personal life. Pasolini was openly gay back in conservative Italy in the 1950s.

Roberto Carnero’s book “Pasolini. Dying for Ideas” was published in Russian in mid-April. The poet Ivan Davydov drew attention to the painted-over pages in a telegram. The literary publication Gorky, in publishing a review of the book, sealed most of the text in black, noting that readers had “an additional incentive to learn Italian.”

The AST website reports that the text of the book was “shortened” due to the Russian law banning so-called gay propaganda. In April, the publishing house withdrew from sale several books by famous authors, including “Heritage” by Vladimir Sorokin, “The Song of Achilles” by Madeleine Miller and “A Little Life” by Hanya Yanagihara.

Pier Paolo Pasolini (5 March 1922, Bologna, Italy – 2 November 1975, Rome, Italy) was an Italian film director, poet and novelist. In his political views, he was a Marxist and a communist, which was reflected in his literary and cinematic works, in which he spoke from an anti-bourgeois position on topics of politics, religion and ideology, shocking the public with original readings of classical myths and combining Marxism with the teachings of Christ and human sexuality in its most diverse and unexpected manifestations.

Pier Paolo Pasolini was killed in Ostia near Rome. His body was found in the morning in a pool of blood. He had ten broken ribs, a crushed heart, a broken jaw, a broken left arm and half of his ears torn out. A car drove over his body several times. 17-year-old Giuseppe Pelosi was arrested and convicted of murder, but on May 7, 2005, he retracted his confession to the murder and the investigation was reopened. Four killers took part in the crime, not just Pelosi. According to Oggi magazine, in addition to Pelosi, two more teenagers, neo-fascist brothers Franco and Giuseppe Borsellino, took part in the murder of Pasolini. The identity of the fourth attacker has not been established.

This crime (along with the case of Vilma Montesi) continues to be one of the biggest unsolved mysteries in Italy of the 20th century. After Pasolini’s death, Pelosi admitted that he did not kill him and saw three guys with a southern accent sitting in a car near Pasolini’s car, who then killed him shouting “Filthy Communist,” etc. Pasolini’s friends admitted more than once that in During the preparation of the film “Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom,” Pierre received numerous threats from the Nazis. According to another version, Pasolini was killed because certain secrets of the Italian oil and gas company ENI, which he wrote regarding in his last work, became available to him.



Pier Paolo might consider such coloring to be a creative act.