Pier Paolo Pasolini's 1964 film The Gospel According to St. Matthew was a surprise when it came out. How had this Marxist, atheist, homosexual made a film which many found devout? Matthew Page - the author of 100 Bible Films - talks to John Bleasdale about one of Pasolini's most surprising films and certainly his most accessible.

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