Teorema

One of the iconoclastic Pier Paolo Pasolini’s most radical provocations finds the auteur moving beyond the poetic, proletarian earthiness that first won him renown and notoriety with a coolly cryptic exploration of bourgeois spiritual emptiness. Terence Stamp stars as the mysterious stranger—perhaps an angel, perhaps a devil—who, one by one, seduces the members of a wealthy Milanese family (including European cinema icons Silvana Mangano, Massimo Girotti, Laura Betti, and Anne Wiazemsky), precipitating an existential crisis in each of their lives. Unfolding nearly wordlessly in a procession of sacred and profane images, this tantalizing metaphysical riddle—blocked from exhibition by the Catholic Church for degeneracy—is at once a blistering Marxist treatise on sex, religion, and art and a primal scream into the void.
Special Features
- New, restored 4K digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- Alternate English-dubbed soundtrack featuring the voices of actor Terence Stamp and others
- Audio commentary from 2007 featuring Robert S. C. Gordon, author of Pasolini: Forms of Subjectivity
- Introduction by director Pier Paolo Pasolini from 1969
- Interview from 2007 with Stamp
- New interview with John David Rhodes, author of Stupendous, Miserable City: Pasolini’s Rome
- New English subtitle translation
- PLUS: An essay by film scholar James Quandt
New cover by Nessim Higson
Special Features
- New, restored 4K digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- Alternate English-dubbed soundtrack featuring the voices of actor Terence Stamp and others
- Audio commentary from 2007 featuring Robert S. C. Gordon, author of Pasolini: Forms of Subjectivity
- Introduction by director Pier Paolo Pasolini from 1969
- Interview from 2007 with Stamp
- New interview with John David Rhodes, author of Stupendous, Miserable City: Pasolini’s Rome
- New English subtitle translation
- PLUS: An essay by film scholar James Quandt
New cover by Nessim Higson

Cast
- Terence Stamp
- The guest
- Silvana Mangano
- Lucia
- Massimo Girotti
- Paolo
- Anne Wiazemsky
- Odetta
- Laura Betti
- Emilia
- Andrés José Cruz Soublette
- Pietro
- Ninetto Davoli
- Angelino, the postman
Credits
- Director
- Pier Paolo Pasolini
- Written by
- Pier Paolo Pasolini
- Produced by
- Franco Rossellini
- Produced by
- Manolo Bolognini
- Director of photography
- Giuseppe Ruzzolini
- Music by
- Ennio Morricone
- Edited by
- Nino Baragli
- Art direction by
- Luciano Puccini
- Costumes by
- Marcella De Marchis
- Production director
- Paolo Frascà
A scene from Teorema







