In keeping with his idea of Jesus Christ as the greatest revolutionary of all time, Pier Paolo Pasolini considered casting Jack Kerouac or Allen Ginsberg in the role. He changed his mind when he met Enrique Irazoqui, a Spanish student of literature, who has written a thesis about Pasolini's novel "Ragazzi di vita" and was very curious to meet him.
Pier Paolo Pasolini used non-professional actors and cast local peasants, shopkeepers, factory workers, and truck drivers. For Mary at the time of the Crucifixion, he cast his own mother Susanna Pasolini.
The film had no script.
All of the dialogue used in the film is taken directly from the Bible.
Selected by the Vatican in the "religion" category of its list of 45 "great films."
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By what name was The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964) officially released in India in English?
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