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===Main Details===
*[[/DVD|Available DVDs]]
* Released on November 25, 1975 (Paris Film Festival)
*[[Salo, 120 Days of Sodom (1975)|Poster Art]]
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== Also Known As==
* Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma
* Salo ou les 120 journées de Sodome
* Die 120 Tage von Sodom (Germany)
* 120 dagar av Sodomi (Finland - Swedish title)
* Salò - Sodoman 120 päivää (Finland - DVD title)
* Salò eller Sodoms 120 dagar (Finland - Swedish title)
* Salò ou Os 120 Dias de Sodoma (Portugal)
* Salò, eller Sodoms 120 dagar (Sweden)
* Salò, o las 120 jornadas de Sodoma (Argentina - cable TV title)
* Saló o los 120 días de Sodoma (Spain)
* Saló, o los 120 días de Sodoma (Argentina)
* Salo ou les 120 journées de Sodome (France)
* Salo ya da Sodom'un 120 günü (Turkey - festival title) (Turkish title)
* Salo, avagy Sodoma 120 napja (Hungary)
* Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom (International - English title)
 
==Main Details==
* Released in 1975
* Color
* Color
* Running Time: 116 min | Argentina: 112 min | USA: 115 min
* Running Time: 116 min | Argentina: 112 min | USA: 115 min
* Aspect Ratio: (1.85:1)
* Aspect Ratio: (1.85:1)
* Production Co: Produzioni Europee Associati (PEA)
* Production Co: Produzioni Europee Associati (PEA)
* Distribution Co: Zebra (USA), United Artists Europa (non-USA), Primer Plano Film Group S.A. (Argentina)
* Distribution Co: Zebra (USA), United Artists Europa (non-USA), Primer Plano Film Group S.A. (Argentina)
== Cast and Crew ==
* Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini
* Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini
* Written by Pier Paolo Pasolini and Sergio Citti
* Written by Pier Paolo Pasolini and Sergio Citti, from the novel ''The 120 Days of Sodom'' by The Marquis de Sade.
* Starring Paolo Bonacelli, Giorgio Cataldi, Umberto Paolo Quintavalle, Aldo Valletti, Caterina Boratto, Elsa De Giorgi, and Hélène Surgère
* Starring Paolo Bonacelli, Giorgio Cataldi, Umberto Paolo Quintavalle
* Produced by Alberto De Stefanis, Antonio Girasante, Alberto Grimaldi
* Produced by Alberto De Stefanis, Antonio Girasante, Alberto Grimaldi
* Original Music by Ennio Morricone
* Original Music by Ennio Morricone
* Cinematography by Tonino Delli Colli
* Cinematography by Tonino Delli Colli
* Film Editing by Nino Baragli, Tatiana Casini Morigi, Enzo Ocone
* Film Editing by Nino Baragli, Tatiana Casini Morigi, Enzo Ocone
==Film Review==
{{Surreal}}
{{Shocksploitation}}
{{Nazisploitation}}
{{Ennio Morricone}}
 
Set in Nazi-occupied Italy of the 1940’s, Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom, takes the Marquis de Sade’s classic work of sadistic sleaze and updates it to WWII Europe, hoping to mirror the excesses of the Marquis to the sexual escapades of a sick band of wealthy nihilists. For the most part, it works, paralleling brutal images of rape, coprophagia and torture to the oppression caused by a fascist society.
 
Opening with black and white title cards and one-of-a-kind bibliographic citations, Salo initially seems like a stuffy, pensive Euro-art flick. However, this feeling fades fast, as it turns into an endless barrage of sexual perversion and squirm-inducing torture within its first twenty minutes.
 
The story basically revolves around four “libertines” (a duke, bishop, magistrate, and president) who’ve realized that their time as social and political leaders in Italy is coming to a close. As a last hurrah, they've devised a plan to kidnap local teens, integrate them into their masquerade of perversion, and brutally murder them for pleasure.
 
After intercepting boys and girls from the countryside (even going to the lengths of trading their daughters to each other for marriage), the libertines pick their prey based on physical perfection and prepare them for their final days. As the teens stand naked in front of their captors, they are told of their roles as possessions and their inevitable demise.
 
The actors portraying the practically nameless subjects of torture (I believe several boys are called Carlo, whether that’s their name or not) act with a guilelessness that benefits the feature, making the endless abuse even more depressing due to their realistic portrayal.
 
Their torture runs the gamut from sodomy and garden-variety rape to forced consumption of contaminated food and shit, symbolizing the overbearing consumerism of modern society and the willingness of the old and rich to control the freedom and innocence of youth. There is no moment more indicative of this fact than during the final act of degradation. As the teens are begging for their lives, their genitals are burned with candles and tongues cut out with knives. They have been  robbed of their collective voice and ability to create.
 
Even if this flick lacks the campy attitude and leisurely pacing of its Nazisploitation brethren, its naturalistic acting and brave social stance are thought-provoking and shamelessly transgressive. This is the only film, in my knowledge, to truly look at the brutality and dehumanization of the Nazi regime with an unwavering eye.
 
The final feature in the catalog of Marxist poet and cinema realist, Pier Paolo Pasolini, this aggressively explicit flick caused a firestorm of controversy upon its initial release, resulting in worldwide bans and even a confiscation of prints in West Germany. Its scarcity today is equal in its fervor. Fans and collectors alike are willing to shell out upwards of $1,000 for the out-of-print Criterion Collection DVD and internet bootlegs are rampant. However, fans and collectors now have reason to rejoice; Criterion officially released a 2-disc special edition in August of 2008.


Highly Recommended!
===Plot Summary===
*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.


'''Reviewed by [[User:Mdeapo|MDeapo]]''' 01:14, 8 May 2008 (CEST)
===Taglines===
*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)
*A disturbing motion picture for mature audiences who are prepared to view it.
*Direct from the New York Film Festival showing
*The final vision of a controversial filmmaker


=== Also Known As===
* Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma
* Salo ou les 120 journées de Sodome
* Die 120 Tage von Sodom (Germany)
* 120 dagar av Sodomi (Finland - Swedish title)
* Salò - Sodoman 120 päivää (Finland - DVD title)
* Salò eller Sodoms 120 dagar (Finland - Swedish title)
* Salò ou Os 120 Dias de Sodoma (Portugal)
* Salò, eller Sodoms 120 dagar (Sweden)
* Salò, o las 120 jornadas de Sodoma (Argentina - cable TV title)
* Saló o los 120 días de Sodoma (Spain)
* Saló, o los 120 días de Sodoma (Argentina)
* Salo ou les 120 journées de Sodome (France)
* Salo ya da Sodom'un 120 günü (Turkey - festival title) (Turkish title)
* Salo, avagy Sodoma 120 napja (Hungary)
* Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom (International - English title)


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Latest revision as of 01:05, 1 January 2024

Salo, 120 Days of Sodom (1975, Italy/France) is a Shocksploitation film directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini.

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Main Details

  • Released on November 25, 1975 (Paris Film Festival)
  • Color
  • Running Time: 116 min | Argentina: 112 min | USA: 115 min
  • Aspect Ratio: (1.85:1)
  • Production Co: Produzioni Europee Associati (PEA)
  • Distribution Co: Zebra (USA), United Artists Europa (non-USA), Primer Plano Film Group S.A. (Argentina)
  • Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini
  • Written by Pier Paolo Pasolini and Sergio Citti, from the novel The 120 Days of Sodom by The Marquis de Sade.
  • Starring Paolo Bonacelli, Giorgio Cataldi, Umberto Paolo Quintavalle
  • Produced by Alberto De Stefanis, Antonio Girasante, Alberto Grimaldi
  • Original Music by Ennio Morricone
  • Cinematography by Tonino Delli Colli
  • Film Editing by Nino Baragli, Tatiana Casini Morigi, Enzo Ocone

Plot Summary

  • 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.

Taglines

  • 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)
  • A disturbing motion picture for mature audiences who are prepared to view it.
  • Direct from the New York Film Festival showing
  • The final vision of a controversial filmmaker

Also Known As

  • Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma
  • Salo ou les 120 journées de Sodome
  • Die 120 Tage von Sodom (Germany)
  • 120 dagar av Sodomi (Finland - Swedish title)
  • Salò - Sodoman 120 päivää (Finland - DVD title)
  • Salò eller Sodoms 120 dagar (Finland - Swedish title)
  • Salò ou Os 120 Dias de Sodoma (Portugal)
  • Salò, eller Sodoms 120 dagar (Sweden)
  • Salò, o las 120 jornadas de Sodoma (Argentina - cable TV title)
  • Saló o los 120 días de Sodoma (Spain)
  • Saló, o los 120 días de Sodoma (Argentina)
  • Salo ou les 120 journées de Sodome (France)
  • Salo ya da Sodom'un 120 günü (Turkey - festival title) (Turkish title)
  • Salo, avagy Sodoma 120 napja (Hungary)
  • Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom (International - English title)
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