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
Jean-Luc Godard, Carlo Lizzani, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Marco Bellocchio, Bernardo Bertolucci
Written by
Carlo Lizzani, Jean-Luc Godard, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Marco Bellocchio, Bernardo Bertolucci
Julian Beck
Dying Man (segment "Agonia")
Ninetto Davoli
Riccetto (segment "La sequenza del fiore di carta")
Milena Vukotić
Nurse (segment "Agonia") (uncredited)
Judith Malina
(segment "Agonia")
Nino Castelnuovo
The Director (segment "L'Amore")
Catherine Jourdan
Spectator #1 (segment "L'Amore") (uncredited)
Aldo Puglisi
Dio (segment "La sequenza del fiore di carta") (voice)
Leonardo Scavino
Elda Tattoli
Adriano Aprà
Clerk (segment "Agonia")
Tom Baker
(segment "L'indifferenza")
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")