Docudrama about a street in Rome. The film is based on the idea that architecture starts declining with the invention of the printing press. It covers 400 years of architecture, of literature and of music. The film presents the most important Italian composers and writers of the last 400 years. The first film shot in Italy with 16 mm stereo sound.
Laura Betti (Filmstar), Renato Scarpa (Giambattista Marino), Olimpia Carlisi (Didone), Remo Girone (Pier Paolo Pasolini), Michele Mancini (Giacomo Leopardi), Bruno Mantura (Giuseppe Mazzini), Stefano Oppedisano (Vittorio Alfieri), Stefano Rulli (Giosuè Carducci), Antonio Piovanelli (Enrico IV), Luigi Antonuccio (Silvestro), Mario Scaletta (Liborio), Cesare Biarese (Torquato Tasso), Flavio Albanese (Gabriele D'Annunzio), Enzo Aronica (Enea), Carla Scortichini (confidente di Didone), Nestor Saied, Iannis Minuto, Mauro Russo, Enrico Gaspari, Massimo Franceschi (regista)
ITALIAN SPEAKER
Luigi Faloppa
MUSIC
György Ligeti (monument), Carlo Gesualdo (O vos omnes), Michel Haydn (Trompetenkonzert), Claudio Monteverdi (combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda), Domenico Scarlatti (sonata L. 128), Muzio Clementi (sonata op. 50 nr. 3), Giuseppe Verdi (La Traviata, Falstaff), Trio Vocale Lescano (Segui il ritmo), Gian-Francesco Malipiero (sesto concerto)
Docudrama about a street in Rome. The film is based on the idea that architecture starts declining with the invention of the printing press. It covers 400 years of architecture, of literature and of music. The film presents the most important Italian composers and writers of the last 400 years. The first film shot in Italy with 16 mm stereo sound. 
