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Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma (1975)
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Release Date:
January 1976 (Italy) moreTagline:
The 120 Days of Sodom morePlot:
Four fascist libertines round up 9 teenages boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of physical, mental and sexual torture. full summary | add synopsisUser Comments:
A necessary evil moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Paolo Bonacelli | ... | The Duke |
| Giorgio Cataldi | ... | The Bishop |
| Umberto Paolo Quintavalle | ... | The Magistrate (as Umberto P. Quintavalle) |
| Aldo Valletti | ... | The President |
| Caterina Boratto | ... | Signora Castelli |
| Elsa De Giorgi | ... | Signora Maggi |
| Hélène Surgère | ... | Signora Vaccari (as Helene Surgere) |
| Sonia Saviange | ... | The Pianist |
| Sergio Fascetti | ... | Male Victim |
| Bruno Musso | ... | Male Victim |
| Antonio Orlando | ... | Male Victim |
| Claudio Cicchetti | ... | Male Victim |
| Franco Merli | ... | Male Victim |
| Umberto Chessari | ... | Male Victim |
| Lamberto Book | ... | Male Victim |
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Salo ou les 120 journées de Sodome (France)Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom (International: English title)
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View content advisory for parentsRuntime:
116 min | 145 min (premiere version)Color:
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1.85 : 1 moreSound Mix:
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Italy:(Banned) (original rating) | Germany:18 (SPIO/JK) (uncut) | West Germany:18 (nf) (cut) (original rating) | Finland:(Banned) (1976) | Finland:K-18 (2001) | Italy:VM18 (re-rated) | Australia:(Banned) (1976-1993) (1998- ) | Australia:R (1993-1998) (uncut) | West Germany:(Banned) (cinema release) | Spain:18 | Sweden:15 (uncut) | Japan:R-18 | UK:X (original rating) (cut) (alternate footage) | Hungary:14 | Argentina:18 | Canada:18+ (Quebec) | Canada:R (Ontario) | France:-16 | Netherlands:16 | New Zealand:(Banned) (original rating) | New Zealand:R18 (re-rating) | Portugal:M/18 | Sweden:15 | UK:18 (re-rating) (2000) (uncut) | France:X (original rating) | Norway:18 (re-rating) (2005) (video premiere) | Norway:(Banned) (1976-2003) (cinema release) | Germany:BPjM RestrictedMOVIEmeter: 
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The Japanese Region 2 DVD released in 2002 contains several more production photos not seen in any extant version of the film. Among them, a girl strapped into an electric chair (presumably during the final scene) and the bodies of the victims arranged in two rows, some covered with sheets, in the courtyard. moreQuotes:
The Duke: The obscene gesticulation is like deaf-mute's language, with a code none of us, despite unrestrained caprice, can transgress. moreSoundtrack:
Prelude in E minor moreFAQ
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This is a tough one. Pasolini was a very complicated man. He was murdered in still-unexplained circumstances shortly after the film was completed. I was 10 years old when this movie was finished, but I only saw it now. Despite being almost 30 years old, Salo is probably the most cruel and repulsive film ever made, not just here in Italy but in the whole world. It depicts the worse atrocities inflicted to humans by humans. The true dark side of human nature: When evil is born out of simple boredom, when it comes naturally. It is a film that I don't want to see ever again, but at the same time I'm glad it was made. I thought hated it at first, but I now I realized is not true. Of course I don't love it either. I can't decide how to judge it. I don't like the cinematography or the acting. But it was definitely one of the most profound emotional experiences of revulsion I've had in a film. It is a necessary evil if you can endure it.