La Rabbia

Story

Synopsis

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.

Directors

Giovannino Guareschi, Pier Paolo Pasolini

Writers

Pier Paolo Pasolini, Giovannino Guareschi

Language

Italian

Country

Italy

Release date

13 April 1963

Ensemble

Cast

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  Giorgio Bassani

  Poetry Narrator - Part One (voice)

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  Renato Guttuso

  Prose Narrator - Part One (voice)

• Gigi Artuso

  Narrator - Part Two (voice)

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  Carlo Romano

  Narrator - Part Two (voice)

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  Charles de Gaulle

  Self (archive footage)

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  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Self (archive footage)

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  Yuri Gagarin

  Self (archive footage)

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  Ava Gardner

  Self (archive footage)

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  Nikita Khrushchev

  Self (archive footage)

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  Vladimir Lenin

  Self (archive footage)

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  Sophia Loren

  Self (archive footage)

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  Marilyn Monroe

  Self (archive footage)