The Anger of Pasolini ( La rabbia di Pasolini )

The Anger of Pasolini (DVD) (*)

$28.99

Original Title: La rabbia di Pasolini
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Venice Film Festival

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
Italian ( Mono )

Product Origin/Format:
Italy ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
83 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Black & White
Booklet

Movie filmed in 2008 and produced in:
Italy ( Italy, Greece )

Directed By:
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Giuseppe Bertolucci

Written By:
Pier Paolo Pasolini

Actors:
Giorgio Bassani ..... Poet Narrator (voice)
Renato Guttuso ..... Prose Narrator (voice)
Giuseppe Bertolucci ..... Narrator (voice)
Vittorio Magrelli ..... Narrator (voice)
Pier Paolo Pasolini ..... Himself (archive footage)
Fidel Castro ..... Himself (archive footage)
Charles de Gaulle ..... Himself (archive footage)
Yuri Gagarin ..... Himself (archive footage)
Giovanni Guareschi ..... Himself (archive footage)
Nikita Khrushchev ..... Himself (archive footage)
Sophia Loren ..... Herself (archive footage)
Marilyn Monroe ..... Herself (archive footage)
Alighiero Noschese ..... Himself (archive footage)
Pope John XXIII ..... Himself (archive footage)
Queen Elizabeth II ..... Herself (archive footage)

Synopsis:

Producer Gastone Ferranti invited Pasolini to make this compilation of archive newsreel footage, reflecting on 'modern Italy' - but then cut half of Pasolini's work and asked the right-wing Giovanni Guareschi (author of the Don Camillo books) to add a 'balancing' episode. Pasolini disowned the result, apart from his closing tribute to Marilyn Monroe. This reconstruction restores his original intentions. Plus Pasolini's RoGoPaG episode La Ricotta (1962, 37min), in which Orson Welles plays a director filming the crucifixion.

The history of Pasolini's La Rabbia is fascinating enough: Contracted to make the film, once he'd made it, Pasolini was forced by his producer - who had decided that such a left-wing screed would not fit into the current Italian marketplace -- to cut his version short and accept an additional right-wing look at the world from another director in order to make the movie more balanced and 'commercial.' It didn't work. Now, thanks to the labors of Signore Bertolucci, we can see more of what Pasolini originally intended. And what a piece of work it is!

Pier Paolo Pasolini's compilation of archive newsreel footage, reflecting on 'modern Italy'.

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 10 December, 2013.