In the spring of 1970, between the African Orestiade and The Decameron, Pasolini shot a film for which he wrote a commentary in verses but never finished editing. The film was born as a typical Pasolini intervention: filming the strike of the garbage collectors in Rome, who at the time worked in dramatic health conditions, and filming the humility of their daily work, amidst the waste and scraps of society, in the squares and in the streets. Pasolini also filmed the faces of garbage collectors engaged in claims discussions and the result was an extraordinary anthropological picture of an unknown humanity.
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Pier Paolo Pasolini Director
First release February 2, 1970 · Produced in Italy · Original title Appunti per un romanzo sull'immondezza
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Original title
Appunti per un romanzo sull'immondezza
Original language
Italian
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Italian
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Italy · February 2, 1970
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