Pier Paolo Pasolini

Analyzes the life and work of Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian novelist, poet, and filmmaker. Interviews Pasolini, his friends, and some of Italy's leading writers such as Alberto Moravia and Cesare Zavattini. Explores Pasolini's interest in reviving the epic and mythology and also his attempts to unite Communism and Catholicism in such films as The Gospel According to St. Matthew.