La macchinazione

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{{Infobox film

| name = La macchinazione

| director = David Grieco

| producer = Marina Alessandra Marzotto
Alice Buttafava
Vincent Brançon
Dominique Desforges
Lionel Guedj

| screenplay = Guido Bulla
David Grieco

| starring = {{plainlist|

• Massimo Ranieri
• Libero De Rienzo
• Matteo Taranto
• François-Xavier Demaison

}}

| cinematography = Fabio Zamarion

| editing = Francesco Bilotti

| music = Roger Waters

| distributor = Microcinema

| released = {{Film date|2016|03|24|df=y}}

| runtime = 115 minutes

| country = Italy

| language = Italian

}}

La macchinazione (The Plot) is a 2016 Italian biographical drama film directed by David Grieco, starring Massimo Ranieri and based on the last hours of Pier Paolo Pasolini's life before his murder.{{Cite web|url=https://www.repubblica.it/spettacoli/cinema/2016/03/14/news/massimo_ranieri_e_pier_paolo_pasolini_-135454737/|title=Massimo Ranieri è Pier Paolo Pasolini: "Un grande intellettuale, capace di tenerezza"|publisher=La Repubblica|date=14 March 2016|access-date=3 August 2019}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.it/2016/03/02/pier-paolo-pasolini-la-macchinazione-david-grieco_n_9365220.html|title=Pier Paolo Pasolini: "La Macchinazione", film di David Grieco, chiede la verità sulla morte del poeta|publisher=HuffPost|date=2 March 2016|access-date=3 August 2019}}

Ranieri, who portrays Pasolini, met the poet when he was young and Pasolini himself was very surprised by the physical similarity between the two of them.{{Cite web|url=https://www.iodonna.it/personaggi/interviste-gallery/2016/03/24/massimo-ranieri-pasolini-sono-io/|title=Massimo Ranieri: Pasolini sono io|publisher=IO Donna|date=24 March 2016|access-date=3 August 2019}}