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Federico Fellini's lush and intoxicating masterpiece, La Dolce Vita, is a meditation on the meaning of life and love and stars Marcello Mastroianni as Marcello, a gossip writer who seeks the fleeting excesses and decadence of life and sex. Read More
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Federico Fellini's masterpiece boasts Marcello Mastroianni as a journalist who puts aside his serious career aspirations to report on the shallow, jet-setting denizens of Rome. While writing his stories, he encounters prostitutes, buxom actresses, religious fervor and personal tragedy while trying to make sense of the decadent lifestyle he has been seduced by. With Anita Ekberg, Anouk Aimee, Lex Barker; music by Nino Rota. Packaged inside a leatherette box, this deluxe collector's edition includes postcards, a theatrical poster reproduction and a 40-page booklet. 174 min. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtracks: Italian Dolby Digital mono, Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital stereo; Subtitles: English, Spanish; audio commentary; biographies; bonus footage; bonus shorts; featurettes; filmographies; interviews; photo gallery; more. In Italian with English subtitles.
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Federico Fellini hat ein gebrochenes Verhältnis zum Heimatort. Ich kehre nicht gern nach Rimini zurück, bekennt er. Dort leben die Mutter, Schwester Maddalena und ein paar Jugendfreunde, mit denen er immer noch Kontakt hält. Aber jedesmal, wenn er die Stätten der Kindheit aufsucht, wird er von Gespenstern angefallen, die eigentlich schon archiviert, eingeordnet sind. Rimini ist für ihn eine verfälschte, manipulierte, erfundene Erinnerung. Und so soll es bleiben: Offenbar hat er Angst davor, von der Wirklichkeit zur Korrektur seines Bildes gezwungen zu werden.
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Federico Fellini is best known as a distinctive, intensely personal and creative filmmaker. In the early part of his career, his films contributed to the Italian Neo-Realist movement in cinema. Peter Bondenella writes, "Italian filmakers were trying to develop a cinematic language comparable to the new literary language contemporary writers aimed to create, a nonrhetorical, elemental means of expression permitting an essentially poetic treatment of important social and political issues." Fellini contributed to this movement but soon veered in his own direction. As he moved beyond Neo-Realism, his films compared to a series of short vignettes about life (often autobiographical in nature). These vignettes were composed with surreal and colorful images that suggests a dreamstate.
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Forever a circus ringleader at heart, Federico Fellini (1920-1993) is remembered as one of cinema's greatest storytellers. From bittersweet, heart wrenching tales (La Strada and Nights of Cabiria) to semi-autobiographical classics (La Dolce Vita and the much-imitated 8 1/2) to ambitious period-pieces (Satyricon and Casanova) to dreamlike pseudo-documentaries (The Clowns, Roma, and Intervista), Fellini brought his inner world to the silver screen in a profoundly original and innovative way. Among his many gifts to the world of cinema are the roles he created for his wife, the unforgettable Giulietta Masina.
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The first movie Fellini directed was Lo Sceicco Bianco (1951), with Alberto Sordi, written by Michelangelo Antonioni and Ennio Flaiano. In making this movie Fellini met Nino Rota, the musician that would follow him for the successful rest of his career.
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