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Overview

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Director:
Federico Fellini
Writers:
Federico Fellini (story) &
Ennio Flaiano (story) ...
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Release Date:
19 April 1961 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama more
Tagline:
The Sweet Life more
Plot:
Journalist and man-about-town Marcello struggles to find his place in the world, torn between the allure... more | add synopsis
Awards:
Won Oscar. Another 7 wins & 7 nominations more
NewsDesk:
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Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Marcello Mastroianni ... Marcello Rubini

Anita Ekberg ... Sylvia

Anouk Aimée ... Maddalena (as Anouk Aimee)
Yvonne Furneaux ... Emma
Magali Noël ... Fanny (as Magali Noel)
Alain Cuny ... Steiner
Annibale Ninchi ... Marcello's father
Walter Santesso ... Paparazzo
Valeria Ciangottini ... Paola
Riccardo Garrone ... Riccardo
Ida Galli ... Debuttante of the Year
Audrey McDonald ... Jane (as Audey McDonald)
Polidor ... Clown
Alain Dijon ... Frankie Stout
Enzo Cerusico ... Newspaper photographer
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
La dolce vita (France)
La douceur de vivre (France) (alternative title)
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Runtime:
174 min | Germany:177 min (premiere) | Portugal:165 min (re-release) | USA:180 min (premiere)
Country:
Italy | France
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric)
Company:
Riama Film more

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Trivia:
The film wasn't released in Spain until 1981 because of moral censorship. more
Goofs:
Miscellaneous: In the castle, Marcello lights a match to view some ancestral paintings. A spotlight is used to enhance the light of this match, but does not follow the actor's movements very closely and gives the illusion away. more
Quotes:
Steiner: We must get beyond passions, like a great work of art. In such miraculous harmony. We should love each other outside of time... detached. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in Camping Cosmos (1996) more
Soundtrack:
Patricia more

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68 out of 87 people found the following comment useful:-
my favorite fellini -, 23 April 2004
Author: shoolaroon from usa

I first saw this movie probably over 25 years ago when I was quite a bit younger. At that point I enjoyed it for its party scenes, sense of joy and life and vitality and....Marcello Mastroianni. Now that I'm older myself and have just recently seen the movie again, I find that I have a much deeper understanding of it. Maybe it takes some age to find some meaning. In a nutshell, Marcello is at a crossroads in his life, he's unable to settle down or move foreward into any direction - he's a diletante with aspirations but no real goals. He's wrapped up in himself and in projecting rather dreamy ideals onto other people. But as he keeps projecting on to others he comes to find in each situation that he doesn't really know the person and they are a mystery and probably a disappointment to him. certainly steiner is the biggest disappointment and disillusions him to a degree that he is apparently lost to a life of corruption and decadence as a result. but it's not that these people are difficult to understand to someone other than marcello - i think we can see that anita ekberg's character really is just a big good-natured blond and not the mysterious goddess marcello makes her out to be; his father is again - the typical traveling salesman and perhaps not the paternal figure that marcello would like him to be. his amour maddelena lives up to her name even as marcello starts believing himself in love with her - he's literally seduced by nothing more than an image he creates in his own mind. his friend steiner seems to have it all to marcello and to be the renaissance man that he would like to be - but, of course, he is dissatisfied and disturbed and we see what the end is. the only one whom marcello forms a somewhat realistic connection with is his girlfriend whom he treats badly and neglects despite her obvious love for him. he refuses to actually work on the one relationship that he could actually succeed at - he would rather dream about possibilities than actualize something.

marcello cannot communicate with others because he cannot see them as the people they really are - he just sees them as projections of his own needs, aspirations, desires and goals. when he finds out what they're really like, he either turns away or falls apart. this is an outstanding movie - 10 out of 10 and beautifully photographed. if you don't get it now, try again in 10 years - it will wait for you to catch up.

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