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.
Directed by
Pier Paolo Pasolini, Bernardo Bertolucci, Carlo Lizzani, Jean-Luc Godard, Marco Bellocchio
Written by
Pier Paolo Pasolini, Bernardo Bertolucci, Carlo Lizzani, Jean-Luc Godard, Marco Bellocchio
Judith Malina
(segment "Agonia")
Leonardo Scavino
Julian Beck
Dying Man (segment "Agonia")
Tom Baker
(segment "L'indifferenza")
Milena Vukotić
Nurse (segment "Agonia") (uncredited)
Ninetto Davoli
Riccetto (segment "La sequenza del fiore di carta")
Catherine Jourdan
Spectator #1 (segment "L'Amore") (uncredited)
Aldo Puglisi
Dio (segment "La sequenza del fiore di carta") (voice)
Elda Tattoli
Adriano Aprà
Clerk (segment "Agonia")
Nino Castelnuovo
The Director (segment "L'Amore")
Jim Anderson
(segment "Agonia")
Giulio Cesare Castello
Priest (segment "Agonia")
Fernaldo Di Giammatteo
(segment "Agonia")
Petra Vogt
(segment "Agonia")
Rochelle Barbini
The Little Girl (segment "La sequenza del fiore di carta")