Federico FelliniFilmography

Born:: January 20, 1920 in Rimini, Italy
Occupation:: Actor, Director, Screenwriter
Biography:: One of the most visionary figures to emerge from the fertile motion picture community of postwar-era Italy, Federico Fellini brought a new level of autobiographical intensity to his craft; more than any other filmmaker of his era, he transformed the realities of his life into the surrealism of his...Read More

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Actors: Pedro Almodóvar, Robert Altman, Michelangelo Antonioni, Roberto Benigni, Bernardo Bertolucci

2004
Biography: Federico Fellini

Actors: Federico Fellini

Synopsis: He retains a status as one of the four or five most important and influential film directors of the 20th century, and arguably the most brilliant director in Italian history. Moreover, his instantly-identifiable style - with its trademark flamboyant grotesquerie and casts of leering circus freaks Read More

2004
Fellini: I'm a Born Liar

Synopsis: Federico Fellini was one of the leading figures of the international cinema in the 1960s, whose dreamlike images and indelible characters made La Dolce Vita, 8 1/2, and Juliet of the Spirits among the most acclaimed films of that era. Fellini himself was a character as unique as any he created for Read More

4/2/03
Fellini Racconta - Un Autoritratto Ritrovato

Actors: Federico Fellini

Synopsis: Federico Fellini was one of the most acclaimed and influential filmmakers of his generation, but in his native Italy, he was also a full-fledged media personality. This documentary offers a glimpse of Fellini as both a filmmaker and an individual as he faces interviewers from the Italian Read More

2000
La Voce della Luna

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Roberto Benigni, Paolo Villaggio, Nadia Ottaviani

Synopsis: The elfin, irrepressible and very popular Italian comic Roberto Benigni and the similarly popular Paolo Villaggio star in this, the last of celebrated director Federico Fellini's films. The film's dreamlike story follows the meanderings of the moon-struck (or lunatic) Salvini (Benigni). As it Read More

1989
Intervista

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Federico Fellini, Marcello Mastroianni, Anita Ekberg, Sergio Rubini, Maurizio Mein

Synopsis: Intervista has been termed a semi-documentary: This is in fact the filmed autobiography of Italian director Federico Fellini, framed in the form of an interview conducted by a Japanese film crew. As the interview progresses Fellini's mind wanders to his earliest days (the reenacted events conflict Read More

9/28/87
Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema

Synopsis: Survey of the history of Italian cinema, featuring clips from such classics as "Open City," "8-1/2," and "Seven Beauties," and interviews with illustrious stars and filmmakers, including Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Toto, Monica Vitti, Anna Magnani, Vittorio DeSica, Federico Fellini, Pier Paolo Pasolini Read More

9/13/86
Ginger and Fred

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Giulietta Masina, Franco Fabrizi, Martin Maria Blau

Synopsis: Director Federico Fellini gently lampoons the world of small-time show business in Ginger and Fred. Giulietta Masina and Marcello Mastroianni star as Amelia Bonetti and Pippo Botticella, a onetime celebrity song-and-dance team. Having risen to fame with a dancing act where they recreated the acts Read More

1/22/86
Il Tassinaro

Actors: Federico Fellini, Silvana Pampanini

Synopsis: Limited in new routines and without a plot to speak of, this series of vignettes focuses primarily on the fares a cab driver (Alberto Sordi) picks up and what is said or done during their ride. Unfortunately, some of the fares are foreigners ridiculed or insulted in one way or another (Arabs at a Read More

12/21/83
And the Ship Sails on

Crew: Director, Screen Story, Screenwriter

Actors: Freddie Jones, Barbara Jefford, Victor Poletti, Peter Cellier, Elisa Mainardi

Synopsis: This evocative look at a 1914 ocean voyage to scatter the ashes of a world-famous opera singer (Janet Suzman) is by turns charming, funny, and bizarre. Among the ship's passengers are aristocrats, politicians, singers, and a rhinoceros. Their episodic interactions form the core of the film, with Read More

10/7/83
City of Women

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Anna Prucnal, Bernice Stegers, Donatella Damiani, Jole Silvani

Synopsis: In this dream-sequence film, renowned Italian director Federico Fellini expounds at length on the nature, complexities, attitudes, and hang-ups of women and how this all relates to men "hunting" sexual conquests. Snaporaz (Marcello Mastroianni) is traveling in a compartment on a train when he Read More

3/28/80
Orchestra Rehearsal

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Balduin Baas

Synopsis: Director Federico Fellini's Orchestra Rehearsal (Prova d'Orchestra) was originally made for Italian TV, then given a limited theatrical release in the US. Using a symphony orchestra as a metaphor for Mankind, Fellini explores the various joys, sorrows, frustrations and triumphs of the musicians. Read More

2/22/79
Il Casanova di Fellini

Crew: Director, Production Designer, Screenwriter

Actors: Donald Sutherland, Tina Aumont, Cicely Browne, Olimpia Carlisi, Adele Angela Lojodice

Synopsis: Fellini's Casanova is played by Donald Sutherland. The film takes great pains to debunk the myth of the Great Lover by presenting him as an ordinary human being swept up in extraordinary circumstances. This Casanova breezes through his various political and amorous adventures with an air of bored Read More

12/7/76
We All Loved Each Other So Much

Actors: Nino Manfredi, Vittorio Gassman, Stefania Sandrelli, Stefano Satta Flores, Giovanna Ralli

Synopsis: Stefania Sandrelli, a bit player in Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita, stars in the deliberately Felliniesque comedy We All Loved Each Other So Much. Sandrelli plays the longtime object of three friends' affections. The film traces the interrelationships of those friends-Vittorio Gassman, Nino Manfredi Read More

12/21/74
Amarcord

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Bruno Zanin, Pupella Maggio, Armando Brancia, Magali Noël, Ciccio Ingrassia, Nando Orfei

Synopsis: Federico Fellini's warmly nostalgic memory piece examines daily life in the Italian village of Rimini during the reign of Mussolini, and won the 1974 Academy Award as Best Foreign Film. The film's greatest asset is its ability to be sweet without being cloying, due in great part to Danilo Donati's Read More

12/18/73
Fellini's Roma

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Britta Barnes, Federico Fellini

Synopsis: Fellini's Roma is a virtually plotless autobiographical tribute to Rome, Italy, featuring narration by Fellini himself and a mixture of real-life footage and fictional set pieces. It flows from episode to episode, beginning with the director's early years arriving in Rome in 1931 during the time Read More

3/16/72
The Clowns

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Riccardo Billi, Fanfulla

Synopsis: The culmination of filmmaker Federico Fellini's lifelong love affair with circus folk was his 1971 The Clowns (I clowns). Fellini's alter ego this time is a young boy, taking in his first circus (again, we're treated to the "parade" motif so often utilized by the director). As the clowns go Read More

12/27/70
Alex in Wonderland

Actors: Donald Sutherland, Ellen Burstyn, Meg Mazursky, Glenna Sergent

Synopsis: Made on the heels of Paul Mazursky's Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, this cinematic experiment is one of the director's more personal films. With a big tip-'o-the-hat to Fellini's 8 1/2 (to make sure no one misses the references to the film, Federico Fellini appears in a cameo), Alex in Wonderland Read More

1970
Fellini Satyricon

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Martin Potter, Hiram Keller, Max Born, Salvo Randone, Mario Romagnoli

Synopsis: Federico Fellini makes his most decadent, undisciplined work in this free adaptation of Petronius' famous farcical chronicle of ancient Roman life. The film opens with Encolpio (Martin Potter) vying with his friend Ascilto (Hiram Keller) for the affections of a young effeminate lad named Gitone Read More

9/3/69
Sweet Charity

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Shirley MacLaine, John McMartin, Ricardo Montalban, Sammy Davis, Jr., Chita Rivera

Synopsis: Shirley MacLaine plays Charity Hope Valentine who, despite her job at a seedy dime-a-dance joint, is an incurable optimist. Charity never stops looking for true love and never seems to look for it in the right places. We first see her in the company of Charlie (Dante DiPaolo), a slimeball who Read More

1969
Ciao Federico! Fellini Directs Satyricon

Synopsis: In Federico Fellini's last theatrical film Intervista, he appears on camera as the subject of a fabricated filmed documentary. This took place for real back in 1969, and the result was the entertaining (if not too enlightening) 55-minute Ciao Federico! Fellini Directs Satyricon. We watch as Read More

1969
Spirits of the Dead

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jane Fonda, Terence Stamp, Brigitte Bardot, Alain Delon, James Robertson Justice, Peter Fonda

Synopsis: Released in Europe as Histoires Extraordinaires and Tre Passi Nel Delirio, this is a portmanteau picture, comprised of three supernatural playlets based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe. "Metzengerstein," directed by Roger Vadim, stars the director's then-wife Jane Fonda as a medieval woman prone Read More

6/10/68
Toby Dammit

Crew: Director

1968
Juliet of the Spirits

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Giulietta Masina, Mario Pisu, Sandra Milo, Valentina Cortese, Sylva Koscina

Synopsis: Juliet of the Spirits is a fantastical showcase for Federico Fellini's vibrant imagery, starring his wife, Giulietta Masina, as the titular leading character. Juliet is a wealthy housewife who constantly fears her husband, Giorgio (Mario Pisu), is cheating on her. While she yearns for a peaceful Read More

10/23/65
8 1/2

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Claudia Cardinale, Anouk Aimée, Sandra Milo, Rossella Falk, Madeleine Le Beau

Synopsis: Fresh off of the international success of La Dolce Vita, master director Federico Fellini moved into the realm of self-reflexive autobiography with what is widely believed to be his finest and most personal work. Marcello Mastroianni delivers a brilliant performance as Fellini's alter ego Guido Read More

2/14/63
Boccaccio '70

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Sophia Loren, Luigi Giuliani, Anita Ekberg, Peppino De Filippo, Romy Schneider, Romolo Valli, Tomas Milian

Synopsis: Released in the US by 20th Century-Fox, Boccaccio '70 is a compendium of short subjects directed by three of Italy's top filmmakers. Each story is written in the style of the famed Italian essayist Boccaccio, albeit told in contemporary terms. First up is "The Raffle", written by Cesare Zavattini Read More

2/23/62
La Dolce Vita

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Yvonne Furneaux, Anouk Aimée, Anita Ekberg, Alain Cuny, Lex Barker

Synopsis: In one of the most widely seen and acclaimed European movies of the 1960s, Federico Fellini featured Marcello Mastrioanni as gossip columnist Marcello Rubini. Having left his dreary provincial existence behind, Marcello wanders through an ultra-modern, ultra-sophisticated, ultra-decadent Rome. He Read More

2/3/60
Nights of Cabiria

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Giulietta Masina, Amedeo Nazzari, Franca Marzi, François Perier

Synopsis: Nights of Cabiria opens with Cabiria (Giulietta Masina) and her boyfriend playfully embracing by the seaside -- and then he shoves her into the water and steals her purse. Cabiria is revived by some local boys and runs off by herself, shouting. What follows is a series of similarly humiliating Read More

5/26/57
Il Bidone

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Broderick Crawford, Richard Basehart, Franco Fabrizi, Giulietta Masina, Sue Ellen Blake

Synopsis: Swindle and The Swindlers are both English-language titles for 1955's Il Bidone, a lesser-known effort from Federico Fellini. Broderick Crawford, Richard Basehart, and Franco Fabrizi play a trio of con artists who victimize the Italian bourgeoisie (who are shown to be no better than the crooks). Giueletta Masina Read More

10/7/55
La Strada

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Giulietta Masina, Anthony Quinn, Richard Basehart, Al Silvani, Marcella Rovena

Synopsis: Acclaimed Italian filmmaker Federico Fellini drew on his own circus background for the 1954 classic La Strada. Set in a seedy travelling carnival, this symbolism-laden drama revolves around brutish strongman Zampano (Anthony Quinn), his simple and servile girlfriend Gelsomina (Giulietta Masina, Fellini Read More

9/22/54
I Vitelloni

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Alberto Sordi, Franco Interlenghi, Franco Fabrizi, Leopoldo Trieste, Leonora Ruffo, Riccardo Fellini

Synopsis: Italian maestro Federico Fellini's first international success is a nakedly autobiographical film that bears many of the formal and thematic concerns that recur throughout his work. Set in the director's hometown of Rimini, I Vitelloni follows the lives of five young vitelloni, or Read More

9/17/53
L'Amore in Città

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Seven top Italian filmmakers pooled their talents on the omnibus "reality" feature Amore in Citta (Love in the City). The film is divided into six separate episodes; the first of these, "Paid Love", is a straightforward study of prosititution written and directed by Carlo Lizzani. In the second, Michelangelo Antonioni Read More

1953
The White Sheik

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Brunella Bovo, Alberto Sordi, Leopoldo Trieste, Giulietta Masina, Lilia Landi

Synopsis: The White Sheik (Lo Sceicco Bianco), Fellini's first solo flight as director, is a gentle lampoon of the idolatry heaped upon movie stars. An impressionable young bride, Wanda (Brunella Bovo) accompanies her husband Ivan (Leopoldo Trieste) on a dull honeymoon, full of meetings with family members Read More

9/20/52
Il Brigante Di Tacca Del Lupo

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Amedeo Nazzari, Cosetta Greco, Saro Urzi, Fausto Tozzi

Synopsis: Il Brigante di Tacca del Lupo represented another move away from neorealism into sheer commercialism by Italian filmmker Pietro Germi. The story is set in the 1860s, when the Northern and Southern regions of Italy were forcibly assembled into a unified whole. A bandit loyal to the idea of Southern Read More

1952
Cameriera Bella Presenza Offresi...

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Elsa Merlini, Vittorio De Sica, Aldo Fabrizi, Gino Cervi, Giulietta Masina

Synopsis: This episodic Italian comedy follows the misadventures of housemaid Maria (Elsa Merlini). Her various employers include a salesman (Aldo Fabrizi) who values peace and quiet, but never gets it, and a vainglorious actor (Vittorio de Sica) with woman trouble. Through it all, Maria survives with a Read More

11/3/51
The Flowers of St. Francis

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Flowers of St. Francis (Francesco, giullare di Dio) is an early example of the "commercial" side of Roberto Rossellini. The film traces the life of St. Francis, from his embracing of religion to his efforts to establish a harmonious middle ground between life and spirituality. Rosselini has given Read More

12/14/50
Variety Lights

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Federico Fellini's directorial debut (co-directed with veteran Alberto Lattuada), Luci del Varietà is a bittersweet drama about a bunch of misfits in a traveling vaudeville troupe. The group of actors, dancers, and performers struggle to make it from town to town, playing to minimal crowds. Their Read More

12/6/50
Il Cammino della Speranza

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Raf Vallone, Elena Varzi

Synopsis: Disciples of Italian filmmaker Pietro Germi have noted the stylistic influence of Hollywood's John Ford in Germi's neorealist Il Camino Della Speranza. The story concerns the plight of illegal immigration, as experienced by a pair of Sicilian miners. Unable to find work in their own country, the Read More

11/22/50
The Ways of Love

Actors: Sylvia Bataille, Gabriel, Jane Marken [Jeanne]

Synopsis: The Ways of Love grew from an unfinished film: Jean Renoir's A Day in the Country, of which 46 minutes had been completed before funds ran out. In this French/Italian compendium, Country is combined with Marcel Pagnol's 1933 short subject Jofroi and Roberto Rosselini's 1948 character study The Miracle Read More

1950
Il Passatore

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Valentina Cortese, Rossano Brazzi, Carlo Ninchi, Carlo Campanini, Lillian Laine

Synopsis: Valentina Cortese's star continued to rise with the period melodrama Bullet for Stefano (Il Passatore). Cortese plays Barbara, whose wedding is interrupted when dashing brigand Stefano (Rossano Brazzi) kills the groom and abducts the bride. Eventually, Stefano tires of Barbara, and casts her Read More

1950
Il Delitto di Giovane Episcopo

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Aldo Fabrizi, Yvonne Sanson, Roldano Lupi, Ave Ninchi

Synopsis: Filmed in 1947, Alberto Lattuada's Flesh Will Surrender was released in the U.S. three years later. The film was adapted from a Gabriele d'Annunzio novel by three of Italy's top postwar scenarists: Suso Cecchi, Federico Fellini and Pietro Tellini. Aldo Fabrizi stars as Giovanni Episcopo, a Read More

1950
Il Mulino Del Po

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Carla Del Poggio, Jacques Sernas, Giulio Cali, Anna Carena

Synopsis: Il Mulino del Po was based on a novel by Riccardo Baccheli. Essentially an elaborate retelling of the old one about a pair of young lovers kept separated by family rivalries, the film is distinguished by its evocative location photography and tight, mathematically precise editing. Director Alberto Lattuada Read More

1949
Amore

Synopsis: Amore was the two-part Roberto Rossellini film which introduced his notorious vignette "The Miracle." This brief character study, written by Federico Fellini, tells of an incredibly naive Italian peasant woman (Anna Magnani) who is seduced by a passing stranger whom she believes to be Jesus. Thus Read More

10/30/48
Senza Pietà

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Carla Del Poggio, John Kitzmiller, Giulietta Masina, Folco Lulli

Synopsis: Filmed in 1948 as Senza Pieta, this Alberto Lattuada-directed effort came to America the following year as Without Pity. The film's sensitive subject matter caused problems in distribution and approval; Lattuada was never known to shirk from a sociopolitical statement, even when it meant loss of Read More

9/5/48
Il Miracolo

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Anna Magnani

Synopsis: Both controversial and compelling, this is the story of a naive peasant girl who becomes pregnant after being seduced by a shepherd and believes that she is carrying a specially blessed child. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

1948
Paisan

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Carmela Sazio, Dotts Johnson, Maria Michi, Haniet White

Synopsis: Roberto Rossellini's Paisan (originally Paisa) is one of the best-known and most important of the postwar Italian neorealist films; certainly it has one of the finest pedigrees, representing the combined talents of two of Italy's most prestigious filmmakers. The second of Rossellini's "war Read More

12/10/46
Open City

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Vito Annicchiarico, Nando Bruno, Aldo Fabrizi, Harry Feist, Anna Magnani

Synopsis: Roberto Rossellini's Roma, Città Aperta (known in English as Open City) was one of the landmark films of the 1940s on several levels. Aesthetically, it was one of the first major works of Italian neorealist filmmaking and perhaps the single most influential example of the style. Historically, it Read More

9/27/45
Chi L'ha Visto?

Crew: Screenwriter

1945

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