Released:
1965-07-05

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.

Director:
Pier Paolo Pasolini

Runtime:
1h 28min

Genre:
Documentary

• Cast:
• 
  Pier Paolo Pasolini
  as
  Self - Interviewer (uncredited)
• 
  Lello Bersani
  as
  Narrator (voice)
• 
  Alberto Moravia
  as
  Self - Writer
• 
  Cesare Musatti
  as
  Self - Psychoanalyst
• 
  Peppino Di Capri
  as
  Self - Singer