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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.

1969 |1h 42m |  Drama

Cast

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Julian Beck

Dying Man (segment "Agonia")

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Judith Malina

(segment "Agonia")

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Adriano Aprà

Clerk (segment "Agonia")

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Ninetto Davoli

Riccetto (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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Nino Castelnuovo

The Director (segment "L'Amore")

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Catherine Jourdan

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

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Milena Vukotić

Nurse (segment "Agonia") (uncredited)

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Status

Released

Language

German, French, English, Italian

Budget

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