Overview

Pier Paolo Pasolini sets out to interview Italians about sex, apparently their least favorite thing to talk about in public: he asks children if they know where babies come from; asks old and young women if they support gender equality; asks both sexes if a woman's virginity still matters, what do they think of homosexuality, if divorce should be legal, or if they support the recent abolition of brothels. He interviews blue-collar workers, intellectuals, college students, rural farmers, the bourgeoisie, and every other kind of people, painting a vivid portrait of a rapidly-industrializing Italy, hanging between modernity and tradition — toward both of which Pasolini shows equal distrust.

Cast

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Self - Interviewer (uncredited)

L

Lello Bersani

Narrator (voice)

Alberto Moravia

Self - Writer

C

Cesare Musatti

Self - Psychoanalyst

Peppino Di Capri

Self - Singer

E

Ezio Pascutti

Self - Football Player

W

William Negri

Self - Football Player

C

Carlo Furlanis

Self - Football Player

G

Giuseppe Ungaretti

Self - Poet

C

Camilla Cederna

Self - Writer

Oriana Fallaci

Self - Journalist

A

Adele Cambria

Self - Journalist

Antonella Lualdi

Self - Actress

I

Ignazio Buttitta

Self - Poet

Io Appolloni

Self - Girl at Lido with Swimming Cap (uncredited)

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