Plot
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 do 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.
Trailer
Cast
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Self - Interviewer (uncredited)
Lello Bersani
Narrator (voice)
Alberto Moravia
Self - Writer
Cesare Musatti
Self - Psychoanalyst
Peppino Di Capri
Self - Singer
Ezio Pascutti
Self - Football Player
William Negri
Self - Football Player
Carlo Furlanis
Self - Football Player
Giuseppe Ungaretti
Self - Poet
Camilla Cederna
Self - Writer
Oriana Fallaci
Self - Journalist
Adele Cambria
Self - Journalist
Antonella Lualdi
Self - Actress
Ignazio Buttitta
Self - Poet
Io Appolloni
Self - Girl at Lido with Swimming Cap (uncredited)
Graziella Chiarcossi
Graziella the Bride (uncredited)
Graziella Granata
Self - Girl at Lido with Long Hair (uncredited)