#I vitelloni

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I Vitelloni

dir. Federico Fellini

1953

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I vitelloni, 1953

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The happiest of birthdays in the afterlife to Federico Fellini!

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I Vitelloni (Federico Fellini), 1953

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I Vitelloni

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Franco Fabrizi, Franco Interlenghi, Leopoldo Trieste, Riccardo Fellini, and Alberto Sordi in I Vitelloni (Federico Fellini, 1953) Cast: Franco Interlenghi, Alberto Sordi, Franco Fabrizi, Leopoldo Trieste, Riccardo Fellini, Leonora Ruffo, Jean Brochard, Achille Majeroni, Guido Martufi. Screenplay: Federico Fellini, Ennio Flaiano, Tullio Pinelli. Cinematography: Carlo Carlini, Otello Martelli, Luciano Trasati. Production design: Mario Chiari Film editing: Rolando Benedetti. Music: Nino Rota. The international success of I Vitelloni launched Federico Fellini's directing career after the comparative failures of Variety Lights (1951), which he co-directed with Alberto Lattuada, and The White Sheik (1952), his first solo directing effort. It also earned him an Oscar nomination for screenwriting, which he shared with Ennio Flaiano and Tullio Pinelli. It's certainly one of his most endearing early films, made before his familiar mannerisms set in -- though there are glimpses of those in the tawdry theatrical sequence with the grotesque aging actor played by Achille Majeroni (a part that Fellini tried to persuade Vittorio De Sica to play). But somehow it has taken me several viewings over the years to fully appreciate it. I think that's because Fellini's greatest films have a strong central character -- usually played by Giulietta Masini or Marcello Mastroianni -- to hold the narrative together. I Vitelloni is by definition and title an ensemble picture, but it's also the first of Fellini's excursions into himself, concluding with the Fellini surrogate, Moraldo Rubini (Franco Interlenghi) boarding a train that will take him away from the idlers of his provincial home town -- and presumably to Rome, where he will become the jaded Marcello Rubini of La Dolce Vita (1960) and the blocked director Guido Anselmi of 8 1/2 (1963). The problem is that the character of Moraldo isn't written strongly enough or given enough substance by the actor: Interlenghi, who was discovered by Roberto Rossellini and cast in Shoeshine (1946), had a long career in films and TV in Italy, but the part in I Vitelloni demands someone with more charisma -- a young Mastroianni, in short. Moraldo is overshadowed by the womanizing Fausto (Franco Fabrizi) and by the comic figures of Alberto (Alberto Sordi) and Leopoldo (Leopoldo Trieste). The scenes that should develop Moraldo as a central figure don't quite work, particularly the early-morning encounters with Guido (Guido Martufi), a boy on his way to work at the railroad station -- a sharp counterpoint to the idling vitelloni. "Are you happy?" Moraldo asks the boy. "Why not?" he replies. The exchange seems designed to undercut the frenetic strivings and complaints of the vitelloni, who chafe against the boredom and provinciality of the town, but don't seem to be able to muster enough resolve to do something about it, instead continuing to pursue phantoms of creative or sexual success. The trouble with the Moraldo-Guido scenes is that they come out of nowhere narratively -- and even have oddly uncomfortable (and probably unintended) hints of pedophilia on Moraldo's part. Nor do they satisfactorily set up the film's ending: Moraldo departs and we see Guido walking along the train tracks, the former facing up to the uncertain future, the latter heading comfortably back into his routine. Still, it's a film held together by the score by Fellini's great collaborator Nino Rota, and filled with the boundless energy that often rescued Fellini from his worst impulses.

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Alberto Sordi Filmography Part 1

Giarabub (1942)

Le miserie del signor Travet (1945)

The White Sheik (1952)

I Vitelloni (1953)

Accadde al commissariato (1954)

An American in Rome (1954)

Un eroe dei nostri tempi (1955)

La bella di Roma (1955)

Nero's Mistress (1956)

Arrivano i dollari! (1957)

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26 августа 1953 года на кинофестивале в Венеции состоялась премьера фильма Федерико Феллини "Маменькины сынки". Это была третья режиссёрская работа Феллини и первый его фильм, имевший большой успех.

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Three screenplays: I vitelloni. Il bidone. The temptations of Doctor Antonio, Federico Fellini, New York, Orion Press, 1970.

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I vitelloni, 1953

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I Vitelloni, Federico Fellini, 1953

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I Vitelloni (1953), dir. Federico Fellini

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Lancia Flaminia Sport Series I 1959 by Zagato. - source Moto Vitelloni - Wheels n' wings.

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FedericoFellini's lithograph of "I Vitelloni"