Recente 39++ Pier Paolo Pasolini Death Cause. Outside italy pasolini is usually remembered as one of the most significant of the directors who emerged in the second wave of italian postwar cinema in the early. The day after pier paolo pasolini's violent 1975 murder, l'unità , the italian communist party's (pci) newspaper, described him as vero militante, a true militant. Login to add information, pictures and relationships, join in cause of death.