Before finally entering the afterlife, the dead spend a period in a limbo from which they depart only when, among the living, there is no one who remembers them. Under the care of the salacious Domenico the visitors of a small cemetery recount how they arrived at eternal peace.
Acting
Vittorio Gassman's lecherous cemetery caretaker steals every scene
Writing
Citti and Pasolini's darkly philosophical banter
Production
Limbo as a dusty Roman ossuary with personality
Director
Sergio Citti
Vittorio Gassman
Domenico
Carol Alt
Alma Rossetti
Malcolm McDowell
Edmondo
Galeazzo Benti
Tommaso Grillo
Mariangela Melato
Jolanda
Sergio Rubini
Lucillo Cardellini
Nino Frassica
zio Amilcare
Aldo Giuffrè
becchino
Alvaro Vitali
Torquato Guglielmi
Andy Luotto
Angelo Cuoco
Michela Miti
La barista
Eraldo Turra
Felice
Luciano Manzalini
Giggetto
Donald O'Brien
Archibald Williams
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Sergio Citti was Pier Paolo Pasolini's longtime collaborator; this was his directorial debut after Pasolini's death, carrying that same cruel tenderness toward the marginalized.
The 'dead waiting to be forgotten' premise echoes actual Italian folktales and the Catholic concept of purgatory, but Citti makes it democratically petty—everyone's here, nobody's special.
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