Five short stories with contemporary settings. In New York, people are indifferent to derelicts sleeping on sidewalks, to a woman's assault in front of an apartment building, and to a couple injured in a car crash. A man, stripped of his identity, dies in bed with actors expressing his agony. A cheerful, innocent young man walking a city street in a time of war pays a price for this innocence. A couple talks about cinema while it watches another couple talk of love and truth on the eve of one character's return to Cuba. Striking students take over a university classroom; an argument follows about revolution or incremental change.
Cast
Tom Baker
(segment "L'indifferenza")
Julian Beck
Dying Man (segment "Agonia")
Jim Anderson
(segment "Agonia")
Judith Malina
(segment "Agonia")
Giulio Cesare Castello
Priest (segment "Agonia")
Adriano Aprà
Clerk (segment "Agonia")
Fernaldo Di Giammatteo
(segment "Agonia")
Petra Vogt
(segment "Agonia")
Ninetto Davoli
Riccetto (segment "La sequenza del fiore di carta")
Rochelle Barbini
The Little Girl (segment "La sequenza del fiore di carta")
Aldo Puglisi
Dio (segment "La sequenza del fiore di carta") (voice)
Christine Guého
The Actress (segment "L'Amore")
Nino Castelnuovo
The Director (segment "L'Amore")
Marco Bellocchio
Lecturer (segment "Discutiamo, discutiamo")
Romano Costa
Clerk (segment "Agonia") (uncredited)
Catherine Jourdan
Spectator #1 (segment "L'Amore") (uncredited)
Paolo Pozzesi
Spectator #2 (segment "L'Amore") (uncredited)
Milena Vukotić
Nurse (segment "Agonia") (uncredited)
Crew
Jean-Luc Godard
Director, Writer
Marco Bellocchio
Director, Writer
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Director, Writer
Bernardo Bertolucci
Director, Writer
Carlo Lizzani
Director, Writer, Producer
Elda Tattoli
Co-Director
Puccio Pucci
Story, Idea, Thanks
Piero Badalassi
Story, Idea, Thanks
Franco Fraticelli
Editor
Agnès Guillemot
Editor
Nino Baragli
Editor
Roberto Perpignani
Editor
Attilio Vincioni
Assistant Editor
Giuseppe Ruzzolini
Director of Photography
Ugo Piccone
Director of Photography
Alain Levent
Director of Photography
Sandro Mancori
Director of Photography
Aiace Parolin
Director of Photography
Franco Brocani
Assistant Director
Gianluigi Calderone
Assistant Director
Maurizio Ponzi
Assistant Director, Archival Footage Research
Charles L. Bitsch
Assistant Director
Leonardo Scavino
Assistant Director
Paolo Lombardo
Associate Producer
Raniero Di Giovanbattista
Associate Producer
Mimmo Scavia
Production Design
Giuseppe Di Biase
Camera Operator
Armand Marco
Camera Operator
Renato Cadueri
Sound Mixer
Guy Villette
Sound
Amelio Verona
Sound
Giovanni Fusco
Music
Marina Chierici
Script Supervisor
Armando Bertuccioli
Production Manager
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