Luigi Nono is a composer. He is a pioneer of the new music. He is a committed Marxist. He lives, where he was born, in Venice.
This film presents his music in the context of world events and of a Venice very different from the city of renaissance art or of Thomas Mann.
Nono's statements are read by ALFRED BURKE
Photography JOHN HOOPER
MARK KARLIN , HUMPHREY TREVELYAN Film editor ANGUS NEWTON Director BARRIE GAVIN