The Italian filming location is listed as Pisa, Tuscany.
There's a scene at the end of the film, the part where we're transposed to the 'modern day' with the blind lead and his basketball-playing friends. Then there's a really great shot of an old palazzo. Can someone please confirm that this building is, in fact, in Pisa? Or, if not, where else in Italy? Just curious!Thanks.
That scene is set in Bologna, Pasolini's birthplace (not Pisa, then).
Edipo/Franco Citti plays the flute on the stairs of San Petronio Church, in Piazza Maggiore, the central square of Bologna.
The old building could be "Palazzo dei Banchi" [headquarter of bankers and money-changers in the middle-age and Renaissance], or "Palazzo D'Accursio" [the city hall] if you meant that one filmed a few second after, behind Angelo/Ninetto Davoli playing with pidgeons.
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I always thought "old segment" was shot in Morocco.
Could some of it have been shot in Morocco, and some in Pisa? I've been to Pisa, and saw nothing similar to its landscape in the film's outdoor scenes depicting the original Oedipus.
The middle section of the film is all set in Morocco, youre correct =)
shareThe titles at the beginning say it was filmed near Casablanca.
shareIs it just me, or did Pasolini exploit similar Moroccan landscapes and cityscapes in Arabian Nights/ il fuori..? Even exactly the same?
share Yes, he did. And also for "Medea", I believe.
It was this that apparently influenced Martin Scorsese to shoot "The Last Temptation of Christ" and "Kundun" largely in Morrocco.
It's a stunning landscape for ancient, period films.
Willem Dafoe once said the Morroccan desert at night, while shooting "Last Temptation" was like being on the moon.