Despite being filmed from an original screenplay, academics perceive Accattone as a cinematic rendition of Pasolini's earlier novels, particularly Boys of Life and A Violent Life.
In 1998, Bombana was appointed director of the company Maggio Danza in Florence where he restaged Woyzeck Fragmente and Schönberg opus 4 and created the full length ballet Teorema inspired by Pasolini.
Photographed by Pedriali were people like Giacomo Manzù, Giorgio de Chirico, Alberto Moravia, Federico Fellini, Rudolf Nureyev, Andy Warhol, Man Ray, and Pier Paolo Pasolini, whom he photogaphed shortly before Pasolini's 1975 death.
In Paris he wins the Pasolini Award for his career, along with Alejandro Jodorowsky, Agnes B. and Fernando Arrabal.
She has been in a number of films, including her father's Limelight and A Countess from Hong Kong, and Pasolini´s Canterbury Tales.
In summary, the film deals with the film production of the Passion of Jesus with a director acting like Pasolini yet played by Orson Welles.
Following the deaths of Pasolini and Carrocci they were replaced by Attilio Bertolucci and Enzo Siciliano.
The film is part of the permanent collection at the Pier Paolo Pasolini Archives in Bologna, Italy.