'Sodom' ban protested

by Italian movie leaders

PARIS (P) Italian film directors and actors attacked film censorship last weekend and specifically the banning of the last film made by the late Pier Paolo Pasolini, "Salo or the 120 Days of Sodom.”

The film, being premiered at the international film festival here, received a mixed reception at a press showing. Torture and sex scenes were criticized. The film is about Fascist northern Italy in 1944.

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Among those attacking the ban on the Pasolini film was Bernardo Bertolucci, director of "Last Tango in Paris.".

Pasolini, 53, was found run over by a car Nov. 2 on a road near the beach of Ostia, southwest of Rome. A 17-year-old youth, Giuseppe Pelosi, was charged with the crime. Italian press reports said the two fought when Pelosi refused Pasolini's homosexual advances.