Release date: 04/13/1963
Genres:
Documentary
Countries:
Italy
Rating:
7.3
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.
Giorgio Bassani
Poetry Narrator - Part One (voice)
Renato Guttuso
Prose Narrator - Part One (voice)
Carlo Romano
Narrator - Part Two (voice)
Charles de Gaulle
Self (archive footage)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Self (archive footage)
Yuri Gagarin
Self (archive footage)
Ava Gardner
Self (archive footage)
Nikita Khrushchev
Self (archive footage)
Vladimir Lenin
Self (archive footage)
Sophia Loren
Self (archive footage)
Marilyn Monroe
Self (archive footage)
Pope John XXIII
Self (archive footage)
Pope Paul VI
Self (archive footage)
Pope Pius XII
Self (archive footage)
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
Self (archive footage)
Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom
Self (archive footage)
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