La Rabbia
La rabbia
Documentary footage (from the 1950s) and accompanying commentary to attempt to answer the existential question, Why are our lives characterized by discontent, anguish, and fear? The film is in two completely separate parts, and the directors of these respective sections, left-wing Pier Paolo Pasolini and conservative Giovanni Guareschi, offer the viewer contrasting analyses of and prescriptions for modern society. Part I, by Pasolini, is a denunciation of the offenses of Western culture, particularly those against colonized Africa. It is at the same time a chronicle of the liberation and independence of the former African colonies, portraying these peoples as the new protagonists of the world stage, holding up Marxism as their "salvation", and suggesting that their "innocent ferocity" will be the new religion of the era. Guareschi's part, by contrast, constitutes a defense of Western civilization and a word of hope, couched in traditional Christian terms, for man's future.
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Cast
Giorgio Bassani
as Poetry Narrator - Part One (voice)
Renato Guttuso
as Prose Narrator - Part One (voice)
Ava Gardner
as Self (archive footage)
Nikita Khrushchev
as Self (archive footage)
Carlo Romano
as Narrator - Part Two (voice)
Marilyn Monroe
as Self (archive footage)
Pope Paul VI
as Self (archive footage)
Pope Pius XII
as Self (archive footage)
Charles de Gaulle
as Self (archive footage)
Vladimir Lenin
as Self (archive footage)
Sophia Loren
as Self (archive footage)
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
as Self (archive footage)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
as Self (archive footage)
Yuri Gagarin
as Self (archive footage)
John XXIII.
as Self (archive footage)
Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom
as Self (archive footage)
