Love and Anger

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.

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  Marco Bellocchio
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  Bernardo Bertolucci
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  Jean-Luc Godard
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  Carlo Lizzani
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  Pier Paolo Pasolini
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  Elda Tattoli
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  Franco Brocani
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  Gianluigi Calderone

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  Tom Baker
  (segment "L'indifferenza")
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  Julian Beck
  Dying Man (segment "Agonia")
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  Jim Anderson
  (segment "Agonia")
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  Judith Malina
  (segment "Agonia")
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  Giulio Cesare Castello
  Priest (segment "Agonia")
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  Adriano Aprà
  Clerk (segment "Agonia")
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  Fernaldo Di Giammatteo
  (segment "Agonia")
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  Petra Vogt
  (segment "Agonia")
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  Ninetto Davoli
  Riccetto (segment "La sequenza del fiore di carta")
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  Rochelle Barbini
  The Little Girl (segment "La sequenza del fiore di carta")
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  Aldo Puglisi
  Dio (segment "La sequenza del fiore di carta") (voice)
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  Christine Guého
  The Actress (segment "L'Amore")
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  Nino Castelnuovo
  The Director (segment "L'Amore")
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  Marco Bellocchio
  Lecturer (segment "Discutiamo, discutiamo")
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  Romano Costa
  Clerk (segment "Agonia") (uncredited)
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  Catherine Jourdan
  Spectator #1 (segment "L'Amore") (uncredited)
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  Paolo Pozzesi
  Spectator #2 (segment "L'Amore") (uncredited)
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  Milena Vukotić
  Nurse (segment "Agonia") (uncredited)