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One of the iconoclastic Pier Paolo Pasolini’s most radical provocations finds the auteur moving beyond the poetic, proletarian earthiness that first won him renown and notoriety with a coolly cryptic exploration of bourgeois spiritual emptiness. Terence Stamp stars as the mysterious stranger—perhaps an angel, perhaps a devil—who, one by one, seduces the members of a wealthy Milanese family (including European cinema icons Silvana Mangano, Massimo Girotti, Laura Betti, and Anne Wiazemsky), precipitating an existential crisis in each of their lives. Unfolding nearly wordlessly in a procession of sacred and profane images, this tantalizing metaphysical riddle—blocked from exhibition by the Catholic Church for degeneracy—is at once a blistering Marxist treatise on sex, religion, and art and a primal scream into the void.
Original Release
09/07/1968
US Release
04/21/1969
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Silvana Mangano | Lucia, the mother |
Terence Stamp | The Visitor |
Massimo Girotti | Paolo, the father |
Anne Wiazemsky | Odetta, the daughter |
Laura Betti | Emilia, the servant |
Andrés José Cruz Soublette | Pietro, the son |
Ninetto Davoli | Angelino - the Messenger / Angelino, the Messenger |
Carlo De Mejo | Boy / Lucia's first lover |
Adele Cambria | Emilia - the second servant / Emilia, the Second Servant |
Luigi Barbini | Il ragazzo alla stazione / Boy at the station |
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Silvana Mangano | Lucia, the mother |
Terence Stamp | The Visitor |
Massimo Girotti | Paolo, the father |
Anne Wiazemsky | Odetta, the daughter |
Laura Betti | Emilia, the servant |
Andrés José Cruz Soublette | Pietro, the son |
Ninetto Davoli | Angelino - the Messenger / Angelino, the Messenger |
Carlo De Mejo | Boy / Lucia's first lover |
Adele Cambria | Emilia - the second servant / Emilia, the Second Servant |
Luigi Barbini | Il ragazzo alla stazione / Boy at the station |
Giovanni Ivan Scratuglia | Second boy / Lucia's second lover |
Alfonso Gatto | Doctor |
Cesare Garboli | Interviewer |
Susanna Pasolini | Old Peasant |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Franco Rossellini | Producer |