Appunti per un'Orestiade africana

1970Movie⏱️ 1h 5m

Documentary

⭐ 6.6

IMDB Rating

595 votes

The director presents takes and scenes filmed on location in Africa for a film-that-never-was, a black Oresteia.

Director

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Writers

Pier Paolo Pasolini, O.O. Caramazza

Stars

Gato Barbieri, Donald F. Moye, Marcello Melis

Release Date

November 29, 1975

Language

Italian

Country

Italy

💬 3

Reviews

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🎭 Top Cast

Gato Barbieri

as Self - Musician: saxophone

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Donald F. Moye

as Self - Musican: drums

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Marcello Melis

as Self - Musician: contrabasse

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Yvonne Murray

as Self - singer

Archie Savage

as Self - Singer

Pier Paolo Pasolini

as Self

💰 Box Office

$4,256

Worldwide Gross

🎬 Technical Specs

Aspect Ratio

1.37 : 1

Sound

Mono

Color

Black and White

Filming Location

Rome, Italy

Production

IDI Cinematografica, I Film Dell'Orso, RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana

🏷️ Keywords

aeschylustheaterafricanigerian civil wargreek tragedy

🎯 Categories

ItalianDocumentary

⭐ Featured Review

Highbrow and highly boring

by guy-bellinger • 2021-01-28

4/10

"Among his film projects, Pier Paolo Pasolini has a black "Oresteia". With this in mind he travels through Uganda and Tanzania, looking for Africans who could embody the tragic Greek heroes Orestes, Agamemnon, or Clytemnestra. At the same time, he reads passages from Aeschylus and theorizes about ancient Greece and Africa - both archaic and modern. Back in Italy, he presents the images he recorded to a group of African students at the University of Rome. For convinced "pasolinophiles" only. For the others, listening to Pier Paolo pontificate on ancient tragedy, on archaic Af..."