Petrolio

Suppressed for seventeen years due to its scandalous sexual and political content, Pasolini's masterpiece Petrolio is a shocking and explosive ode to the power of lust and the lust of power. Carlo, a moderately left-wing Catholic who works for the state oil company, has a schizoid personality: by day, he's Carlo 1, the smooth powermonger adept at playing the political parties and the mafia against each other; by night, he's Carlo 2. a man whose insatiable and perverse sexual desires simply have to be obeyed.
In a text that is both an exquisitely detailed homage to the libido and a ruthlessly savage political commentary.
Carlo's corporate rise and sexual fall are brilliantly evoked against the backdrop of neo-Fascist bombings and the rise of the Italian far right.