La rabbia (1963)

Directors:

Giovanni Guareschi
Pier Paolo Pasolini

Writers:

Pier Paolo Pasolini (commentary) (part one)
Giovanni Guareschi (commentary) (part two)

Release Date:

13 April 1963 (Italy)

Genre:

Documentary

Plot:

"La Rabbia" employs documentary footage (from the 1950's) and accompanying commentary to attempt to answer the existential question...

Plot Keywords:

Marxism | Liberation | Actual Animal Killed | Beauty

Cast

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)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
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)

Directed by
Giovanni Guareschi		(part two)
Pier Paolo Pasolini		(part one)

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Giovanni Guareschi		commentary (part two)
Pier Paolo Pasolini		commentary (part one)

Produced by
Gastone Ferranti	....	producer

Film Editing by
Nino Baragli		(part 1)
Pier Paolo Pasolini		(part 1)
Mario Serandrei

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Carlo Di Carlo	....	assistant director (part one)

Production Companies

• Opus Films

Distributors

• Capitol International Video (Italy) (VHS)
• MK2 Diffusion (2004) (France) (DVD)
• Raro Video (2008) (Italy) (DVD)
• Warner Bros

Also Known As:

Runtime:

104 min (2 parts)

Country:

Italy

Language:

Italian

Color:

Color (inserts only) | Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Company:

Opus Films

Movie Connections:

Edited into La rabbia di Pasolini (2008)

Dredfully dreary documentary on the post WWII years

Pasolini stages such a dismal representation of the world and its sufferings, that even the liberation of Cuba from the dictatorship of Batista is represented in sadness and mourning. I would have expected a bit more dept from this brilliant director. His representation of Marxism is religious to say the least. Guareschi too is disappointing, he is way too biased - he defends the atrocities of France in Vietnam and Algeria! - and his traditional sense of humor is almost absent. Some footage is quite interesting from historical point of view, but I would suggest to watch without audio, the commentator is simply too dull and rhetorical.