Overview

Five short stories with contemporary settings. In New York, people are indifferent to derelicts sleeping on sidewalks, to a woman's assault in front of an apartment building, and to a couple injured in a car crash. A man, stripped of his identity, dies in bed with actors expressing his agony. A cheerful, innocent young man walking a city street in a time of war pays a price for this innocence. A couple talks about cinema while it watches another couple talk of love and truth on the eve of one character's return to Cuba. Striking students take over a university classroom; an argument follows about revolution or incremental change.

Genres

Cast

Tom Baker

(segment "L'indifferenza")

Julian Beck

Dying Man (segment "Agonia")

Judith Malina

(segment "Agonia")

Adriano Aprà

Clerk (segment "Agonia")

Ninetto Davoli

Riccetto (segment "La sequenza del fiore di carta")

Aldo Puglisi

Dio (segment "La sequenza del fiore di carta") (voice)

Nino Castelnuovo

The Director (segment "L'Amore")

Marco Bellocchio

Lecturer (segment "Discutiamo, discutiamo")

Catherine Jourdan

Spectator #1 (segment "L'Amore") (uncredited)

Milena Vukotić

Nurse (segment "Agonia") (uncredited)