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by Federico Fellini
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93 editions published between 1962 and 2012 in 5 languages and held by 2,699 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Autobiographical film about a famous film director who loses his inspiration while making a movie
Amarcord
by Federico Fellini
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102 editions published between 1973 and 2011 in 8 languages and held by 1,801 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Presents the director's memories of love, sex, politics, family life and growing up in a small Italian town in the 1930's
Federico Fellini's La dolce vita
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4 editions published between 1960 and 2005 in Italian and held by 1,461 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Marcello Rubini, a frustrated 'serious' writer, does tabloid journalism to make ends meet. He spends every evening in Via Veneto awaiting the next scandal, party invitation, or sexual proposition. From an enigmatic woman named Maddalena, to wealthy intellectual Steiner's penthouse, to a famous actress named Sylvia, Marcello finds himself caught up in the carnival spectacle of nightlife and its fleeting happiness. The empty evenings seem to weave together, a decadent rhythm punctuated only by the regret of the following morning. Marcello is consumed by self-doubt and unable to enjoy the success he has, and so stumbles on, dreaming of attaining the elusive sweet life
La Strada
by Federico Fellini
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131 editions published between 1954 and 2013 in 7 languages and held by 1,407 WorldCat member libraries worldwide There has never been a face quite like that of Giulietta Masina. Her husband, Federico Fellini, directs her as Gelsomina in La Strada. Gelsomina is sold by her mother into the employ of Zampan ̣(Anthony Quinn), a brutal strongman in a traveling circus. When Zampan ̣encounters an old rival in highwire artist the Fool (Richard Basehart), his fury is provoked to its breaking point. With La Strada, Fellini left behind the familiar signposts of Italian neorealism for a poetic fable of love & cruelty
Fellini Satyricon
by Federico Fellini
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44 editions published between 1985 and 2007 in 7 languages and held by 1,041 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Résumé: Evocation poétique. Deux jeunes Romains, Encolpe et Ascylte, se disputent la possession d'un esclave adolescent, Giton. Celui-ci accorde sa préférence à Ascylte et part avec lui. Après avoir assisté à un banquet extravagant offert par un riche affranchi, Encolpe est fait prisonnier par Lichas, pourvoyeur des plaisirs de l'empereur, et retrouve en captivité Ascylte et Giron. La chute de l'empereur amène leur libération; Encolpe et Ascylte connaissent alors diverses aventures. Ascylte y trouve la mort alors qu'Encolpe, frappé d'impuissance, s'efforce de retrouver sa virilité. [(c) OCS] [SDM]
Open city
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13 editions published between 1991 and 2007 in Italian and English and held by 994 WorldCat member libraries worldwide In Nazi-occupied Rome a priest and a communist struggle together against the invaders, are betrayed and arrested, and are finally executed by the Germans
La strada The road
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14 editions published between 1956 and 2006 in 3 languages and held by 977 WorldCat member libraries worldwide A travelling entertainer "buys" a simple-minded girl to help him in his act
Le notti di Cabiria
by Federico Fellini
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34 editions published between 1957 and 2003 in 3 languages and held by 974 WorldCat member libraries worldwide A young prostitute who works in the streets of Rome is continually deceived by men who claim to love her
La dolce vita
by Federico Fellini
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165 editions published between 1959 and 2012 in 8 languages and held by 866 WorldCat member libraries worldwide A journalist mixes in modern Roman high society and is alternately bewitched and sickened by what he sees
I vitelloni
by Federico Fellini
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63 editions published between 1953 and 2008 in 5 languages and held by 828 WorldCat member libraries worldwide This film compassioniately details a year in the life of five young men lingering in post-adolescent limbo, dreaming of adventure and escape from their small town and struggling to find meaning in their lives
Giulietta degli spiriti
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10 editions published in 2002 in Italian and held by 721 WorldCat member libraries worldwide When she suspects her husband of infidelity, a housewife unleashes an unconscious ripe with erotic fantasies. In this film, Fellini's first feature-length color film, his examination of the sexual psyche unfolds via the surrealistic use of abrupt cut-aways to illustrate the woman' sexual fantasies
La Strada : Federico Fellini, director
by Peter E Bondanella
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3 editions published in 1987 in English and held by 562 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Roma
by Federico Fellini
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37 editions published between 1972 and 2010 in 5 languages and held by 557 WorldCat member libraries worldwide A film adaptation of Federico Fellini's reminiscences of Rome before World War II, as compared to the present as it was when the film was originally produced (1972)
E la nave va And the ship sails on
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12 editions published between 1983 and 2004 in Italian and English and held by 554 WorldCat member libraries worldwide In 1914, a colorful melange of celebrities embark on a funeral voyage for a dead opera star. An allegorical film blending spectacle, humour, poignance and grotesquerie
Lo sceicco bianco The white sheik
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9 editions published between 1952 and 2006 in Italian and No Linguistic content and held by 526 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Ivan Cavalli brings his new wife Wanda to Rome on the least romantic honeymoon in history--a rigid schedule of family meetings and an audience with the Pope. But Wanda, dreaming of the dashing hero of a photo-strip cartoon, drifts off in search of the White Sheik, thus setting off a slapstick comedy
Francesco, giullare di Dio The flowers of St. Francis
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5 editions published between 2003 and 2005 in Italian and held by 502 WorldCat member libraries worldwide "In a series of simple and joyous vignettes, director Roberto Rossellini and co-writer Federico Fellini lovingly convey the universal teachings of The People's Saint: humility, faith, and sacrifice. Gorgeously photographed to evoke the medieval paintings of Saint Francis' time, and cast with monks from the Nocera Inferiore Monastery"--Container
Early screenplays: Variety lights, The white sheik
by Federico Fellini
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4 editions published in 1971 in English and held by 449 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Luci del varietà
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13 editions published between 1950 and 2009 in Italian and held by 445 WorldCat member libraries worldwide A newly restored print of Fellini's directorial debut. The film features the director's wife and frequent collaborator, Giulietta Masina, and it introduces Fellini's affection for carnivalesque characters and the variety show, both of which influenced much of his later work. The movie features the onstage and backstage antics of a provincial troupe of lovably inept vaudeville performers travelling laboriously from one small town to another for little pay and ever-uncertain receptions
Ginger and Fred
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9 editions published between 1986 and 2007 in Italian and English and held by 437 WorldCat member libraries worldwide A former dance team that used to earn its living in Italian dance halls by imitating the routines of Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire, reunites thirty years later to do a television variety show
La dolce vita
by Federico Fellini
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57 editions published between 1959 and 2007 in 7 languages and held by 416 WorldCat member libraries worldwide more
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Alternative Names
Federico Fellini
Felini, Federiḳo
Fellini, F. (Federico)
Fellini, F. (Federico), 1920-1993
Fellini, Federico
Fellīni, Federiko, 1920-1993
Fellini, Frederico
Fellini, Frederico 1920-1993
Fīllīnī, Fīdirīkū, 1920-1993
Феллини, Федерико, 1920-1993
פליני, פדריקו
فيدريكو فيلليني، 1920-1993
فيلليني، فديركو، 1920-1993
فيلليني، فيديريكو، 1920-1993
فيليني، فيدريكو، 1920-1993
フェリーニ, フェデリコ
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