Cast and Crew of La Rabbia

Cast of
La Rabbia

About La Rabbia

Documentary footage (from the 1950s) and accompanying commentary to attempt to answer the existential question, Why are our lives characterized by discontent, anguish, and fear? The film is in two completely separate parts, and the directors of these respective sections, left-wing Pier Paolo Pasolini and conservative Giovanni Guareschi, offer the viewer contrasting analyses of and prescriptions for modern society. Part I, by Pasolini, is a denunciation of the offenses of Western culture, particularly those against colonized Africa. It is at the same time a chronicle of the liberation and independence of the former African colonies, portraying these peoples as the new protagonists of the world stage, holding up Marxism as their "salvation", and suggesting that their "innocent ferocity" will be the new religion of the era. Guareschi's part, by contrast, constitutes a defense of Western civilization and a word of hope, couched in traditional Christian terms, for man's future.

Full Cast of La Rabbia

Giorgio Bassani
plays Poetry Narrator - Part One (voice)

Renato Guttuso
plays Prose Narrator - Part One (voice)

Gigi Artuso
plays Narrator - Part Two (voice)

Carlo Romano
plays Narrator - Part Two (voice)

Charles de Gaulle
plays Self (archive footage)

Dwight D. Eisenhower
plays Self (archive footage)

Yuri Gagarin
plays Self (archive footage)

Ava Gardner
plays Self (archive footage)

Nikita Khrushchev
plays Self (archive footage)

Vladimir Lenin
plays Self (archive footage)

Sophia Loren
plays Self (archive footage)

Sophia Loren as Self (archive footage)

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Marilyn Monroe
plays Self (archive footage)

Pope John XXIII
plays Self (archive footage)

Pope Paul VI
plays Self (archive footage)

Pope Pius XII
plays Self (archive footage)

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
plays Self (archive footage)

Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom
plays Self (archive footage)

Dr. Ahmed Sukarno
plays Self (archive footage)


Crew of La Rabbia

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