一个街头小混混和他的狐朋狗友胡作非为的故事。抢劫偷盗,着急了也会杀人,最后很平静地面对死亡……

导演在非洲的某地，给人们呈现，拍摄这个故事，并在此取景，完成了一部前所未有的电影，即一位黑人俄瑞斯忒斯的神话传说。

此片是帕索里尼和极左组"不懈斗争"合作拍摄的，这个组织本身就牵扯进影片里相关的事件颇深，影片内容也相当激进。1969年12月12日，一枚炸弹在米兰喷泉广场的农业银行爆炸，导致16人死亡。该事件当时马上被政府归罪为左翼无政府主义者所为，并对左翼组织展开大规模追捕。实际真相扑朔迷离。

Appunti per un film sull'India is a 1968 short documentary film by Pier Paolo Pasolini where he visits India to do a recces for his proposed film with India as its background about a king who gives up his body to feed a starving tiger.
The film was shot around post-independent India when it was facing grave challenges of poverty, population and caste system. Pasolini narrates the challenges of India and its charms amidst all the problems the country faces. The 33-minute-long documentary is composed of short interviews from random people about their opinions on matters such as family planning. The documentary also shows short interviews of journalists and one politician about the challenges India faces in modernizing itself without becoming westernized or losing the Indian identity in the process.
The film opens and ends with a shot of a Sikh soldier, who, Pasolini identifies, in his commentary, as the one who would play the role of Maharaja in his film. Among others Pasolini interviewed for his film the former Maharaja of Bhavanagar and his wife and well-known Urdu story writer and filmmaker Rajinder Singh Bedi.
The documentary was shot in many places including New Delhi, Jaipur, Rishikesh and Varanasi etc.

本片聚焦在一部描写关于基督的影片中一个扮演不起眼角色的可怜配角，他扮演着同基督一起被钉在十字架上的强盗。而就像他扮演的角色一样，在现实生活中他也受同事们的欺凌。最后由于长期没有吃东西，他因吃了过多的软奶酪在被钉上十字架的过程中死去。
这部短片由著名导演奥逊·威尔斯主演，当年上映时因题材争议引起轩然大波，更让帕索里尼官司缠身。