La Rage

L’histoire

Résumé en anglais

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.

Distribution

G Giorgio BassaniPoetry Narrator - Part One (voice) R Renato GuttusoProse Narrator - Part One (voice) G Gigi ArtusoNarrator - Part Two (voice) C Carlo RomanoNarrator - Part Two (voice) C Charles de GaulleSelf (archive footage) D Dwight D. EisenhowerSelf (archive footage) Y Yuri GagarinSelf (archive footage) A Ava GardnerSelf (archive footage) N Nikita KhrushchevSelf (archive footage) V Vladimir LeninSelf (archive footage) S Sophia LorenSelf (archive footage) M Marilyn MonroeSelf (archive footage)

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J John XXIII.Self (archive footage) P Paul VISelf (archive footage) P Pope Pius XIISelf (archive footage) P Prince Philip, Duke of EdinburghSelf (archive footage) E Elizabeth II of the United KingdomSelf (archive footage) D Dr. Ahmed SukarnoSelf (archive footage)