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.

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Cast

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Self - Interviewer (uncredited)

Alberto Moravia

Self - Writer

Peppino Di Capri

Self - Singer

Oriana Fallaci

Self - Journalist

Antonella Lualdi

Self - Actress

Io Appolloni

Self - Girl at Lido with Swimming Cap (uncredited)

Graziella Granata

Self - Girl at Lido with Long Hair (uncredited)