The Anger (1963) ( La Rabbia )

The Anger (1963) (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: La Rabbia
Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
Italian ( Mono )

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

Running Time:
100 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Black & White
Booklet

Movie filmed in 1963 and produced in:
Italy ( Italy, Greece )

Directed By:
Giovanni Guareschi
Pier Paolo Pasolini

Written By:
Giovanni Guareschi
Pier Paolo Pasolini

Actors:
Giorgio Bassani ..... Poetry Narrator - Part one (voice)
Renato Guttuso ..... Prose Narrator - Part one (voice)
Gigi Artuso ..... Narrator - Part two (voice)
Carlo Romano ..... Narrator - Part two (voice)
Charles de Gaulle ..... Himself (archive footage)
Dwight D. Eisenhower ..... Himself (archive footage)
Yuri Gagarin ..... Himself (archive footage)
Ava Gardner ..... Herself (archive footage)
Nikita Khrushchev ..... Himself (archive footage)
V.I. Lenin ..... Himself (archive footage)
Sophia Loren ..... Herself (archive footage)
Marilyn Monroe ..... Herself (archive footage)
Pope John XXIII ..... Himself (archive footage)
Pope Paul VI ..... Himself (archive footage)
Pope Pius XII ..... Himself (archive footage)
Prince Philip ..... Himself (archive footage)
Queen Elizabeth II ..... Herself (archive footage)
Sukarno ..... Himself (archive footage)

Synopsis:

La Rabbia employs documentary footage (from the 1950's) 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.

La Rabbia ('Anger') is an Italian documentary film produced by Gastone Ferranti and directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini in the first half and by Giovannino Guareschi in the second half. Film producer Gastone Ferranti wanted to make a movie with the two most important Italian intellectuals of the 1960s: Giovannino Guareschi and Pier Paolo Pasolini, despite them being diametrically opposite - one a right-wing Monarchist, and the other a Communist militant, and yet branded as 'heretics' by their own side. The producer's goal was to make a sort of 'match' where Guareschi and Pasolini gave their own answers to a single question, i.e. what was the cause of the discontent, of the fear and of the conflicts shaking the society of the time. The movie, analyzing the social conflicts of the contemporary world in a strongly critical and controversial way, was made through the montage of old footage from Ferranti's Mondo Libero newsreels, archive material concerning different countries, pictures from art books and magazines. Guareschi criticizes the degradation of art for commercial aims, and more broadly the 'soulless' modernity wiping out any perspective other than materialism and, lastly, causes distrust towards the future. However, as Guareschi says at the end, 'This is the planet where the Son of God chose to be born, to suffer and to die as a man.' And for this reason 'it's here, and not on the Moon, that we have to try and find the solution to our problems. Because in spite of Mao, Khruschev and other trouble, this planet is still worth living on [...] and hope is greater than fear in us.' In his part of the documentary, Pasolini deals with the 1956 Hungarian Revolution and of the Cuban Revolution, praises progressivism, decolonization and class struggle, he takes Marilyn Monroe's death as an example to speak about the death of beauty, complains about the disappearance of the rural world and heavily criticizes industrialization, conservativism, anti-communism and the burgeoisie. Part of Pasolini's film was cut to make room for Guareschi in the final cut. Despite starting from opposite positions, Guareschi's and Pasolini's statements have some points of convergence, especially regarding the alienation and de-humanization in the modern world. It might even seem that both turned out to be prophetic, although in a negative way.

Compilation film, of life in Italy from 1945 to the present day. In two parts

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 17 March, 2009.

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