The Genesis Children (1972)

Directors

Anthony Aikman

Cast

Jack Good

The story

The Genesis Children is a non-narrative film with a theme of "the unity of mankind". The story is about eight American students of an international school in Rome who follow a want ad placed by a mysterious man: "Wanted: boys to act in a play, to be performed before God." This leads them to a cove at the Palinuro natural arch in southern Italy, where in the beginning they appear overwhelmed by a sensation of paradisiacal ease and freedom. Throughout the "play", the boys venture into diverse, sometimes bizarre, actions to overcome growing "boredom, hunger, and homesickness" (as their problems are diagnosed by one of them), as well as fear.

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