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Federico Fellini(1920-1993)

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  • Director
  • Actor
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Federico Fellini
The women who both attracted and frightened him and an Italy dominated in his youth by Mussolini and Pope Pius XII - inspired the dreams that Fellini started recording in notebooks in the 1960s. Life and dreams were raw material for his films. His native Rimini and characters like Saraghina (the devil herself said the priests who ran his school) - and the Gambettola farmhouse of his paternal grandmother would be remembered in several films. His traveling salesman father Urbano Fellini showed up in La Dolce Vita (1960) and 8½ (1963). His mother Ida Barbiani was from Rome and accompanied him there in 1939. He enrolled in the University of Rome. Intrigued by the image of reporters in American films, he tried out the real life role of journalist and caught the attention of several editors with his caricatures and cartoons and then started submitting articles. Several articles were recycled into a radio series about newlyweds "Cico and Pallina". Pallina was played by acting student Giulietta Masina, who became his real life wife from October 30, 1943, until his death half a century later. The young Fellini loved vaudeville and was befriended in 1940 by leading comedian Aldo Fabrizi. Roberto Rossellini wanted Fabrizi to play Don Pietro in Rome, Open City (1945) and made the contact through Fellini. Fellini worked on that film's script and is on the credits for Rosselini's Paisan (1946). On that film he wandered into the editing room, started observing how Italian films were made (a lot like the old silent films with an emphasis on visual effects, dialogue dubbed in later). Fellini in his mid-20s had found his life's work.
BornJanuary 20, 1920
DiedOctober 31, 1993(73)
BornJanuary 20, 1920
DiedOctober 31, 1993(73)
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  • Nominated for 12 Oscars

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Federico Fellini
Federico Fellini in Aujourd'hui (1962)
Federico Fellini in 8½ (1963)
Federico Fellini in La Dolce Vita (1960)
Federico Fellini in Fellini Satyricon (1969)
Federico Fellini and Claudia Cardinale in 8½ (1963)
Federico Fellini and Martin Potter in Fellini Satyricon (1969)
Federico Fellini and Anouk Aimée in La Dolce Vita (1960)
Federico Fellini and Giulietta Masina in Fellini Satyricon (1969)
Federico Fellini and Yvonne Furneaux in La Dolce Vita (1960)
Federico Fellini
Federico Fellini and Marcello Mastroianni

Known for

Giulietta Masina in Nights of Cabiria (1957)
Nights of Cabiria
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  • Writer
  • 1957
8½ (1963)
8½
8.0
  • Writer
  • 1963
I Remember (1973)
I Remember
7.9
  • Writer
  • 1973
La Dolce Vita (1960)
La Dolce Vita
8.0
  • Writer
  • 1960

Credits

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Writer

  • The Thousand Miles
    • In Production
  • Teatr Polskiego Radia (1925)
    Teatr Polskiego Radia
  • The Voice of the Moon (1990)
    The Voice of the Moon
  • La Strada
  • Intervista (1987)
    Intervista
  • Marcello Mastroianni and Giulietta Masina in Ginger & Fred (1986)
    Ginger & Fred
  • Alta Società: Rigatoni Barilla (1985)
    Alta Società: Rigatoni Barilla
  • Silvia Dionisio in Che bel paesaggio: Bitter Campari (1984)
    Che bel paesaggio: Bitter Campari
  • The Ship Sails On (1983)
    The Ship Sails On
  • City of Women (1980)
    City of Women
  • Orchestra Rehearsal (1978)
    Orchestra Rehearsal
  • Fellini's Casanova (1976)
    Fellini's Casanova
  • Pasqualino Cammarata... capitano di fregata (1974)
    Pasqualino Cammarata... capitano di fregata
    • (uncredited)
  • I Remember (1973)
    I Remember
  • Roma (1972)
    Roma
  • The Clowns (1970)
    The Clowns

Director

  • The King of Ads (1991)
    The King of Ads
    • (segments Campari commercial, Barilla commercial)
  • The Voice of the Moon (1990)
    The Voice of the Moon
  • Intervista (1987)
    Intervista
  • Marcello Mastroianni and Giulietta Masina in Ginger & Fred (1986)
    Ginger & Fred
  • Alta Società: Rigatoni Barilla (1985)
    Alta Società: Rigatoni Barilla
  • Silvia Dionisio in Che bel paesaggio: Bitter Campari (1984)
    Che bel paesaggio: Bitter Campari
  • The Ship Sails On (1983)
    The Ship Sails On
  • City of Women (1980)
    City of Women
  • Orchestra Rehearsal (1978)
    Orchestra Rehearsal
  • Fellini's Casanova (1976)
    Fellini's Casanova
  • I Remember (1973)
    I Remember
  • Roma (1972)
    Roma
  • The Clowns (1970)
    The Clowns
  • Fellini Satyricon (1969)
    Fellini Satyricon
  • NBC Experiment in Television (1967)
    NBC Experiment in Television

Actor

  • Intervista (1987)
    Intervista
    • (uncredited)
  • Il tassinaro (1983)
    Il tassinaro
  • We All Loved Each Other So Much (1974)
    We All Loved Each Other So Much
  • Roma (1972)
    Roma
    • (uncredited)
  • Alex in Wonderland (1970)
    Alex in Wonderland
  • The Clowns (1970)
    The Clowns
    • (uncredited)
  • The Ways of Love
  • L'amore (1948)
    L'amore
    • (uncredited)
  • Paisan (1946)
    Paisan
    • (uncredited)
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Personal details

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    • Facebook - Fellini Foundation
    • Fellini 100
    • January 20, 1920
    • Rimini, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
    • October 31, 1993
    • Rome, Lazio, Italy(heart attack)
    • Giulietta MasinaOctober 30, 1943 - October 31, 1993 (his death, 1 child)
    • Maddalena Fellini(Sibling)
  • Other works
    TV commercial (Italy): Directed commercial for Banca di Roma
  • Publicity listings
    • 1 Biographical Movie
    • 41 Print Biographies
    • 2 Portrayals
    • 5 Interviews
    • 22 Articles
    • 1 Pictorial
    • 3 Magazine Cover Photos

Did you know

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  • Trivia
    The term "paparazzi" comes from a character named Paparazzo in his film, La Dolce Vita (1960), who is a journalist photographing celebrities.
  • Quotes
    There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.
    • Bizarre, abstract plots peppered with risque humor

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