federico fellini 8 12 original movie poster

Grotesque scenarios, fantastic color tableaux, visual richness

From then on, his films became more fragmentary and sometimes even more playful, but certainly more opulent.

Marcello Mastroianni in '8 1/2' Image: picture-alliance/United Archives/IFTNįellini's 8 1/2 from 1963, his autobiographically inspired film about a director in crisis, would also usher in a new artistic phase in his work. Idlers, strays and petty criminals populate his films, just as prostitutes, saints, mothers and outcasts do. Larger-than-life women, or men searching for the meaning of life: Fellini put them in the spotlight. The circus, minstrels, magic and enchantment: The fairground environment became one of his trademarks.įellini's films celebrate nostalgia and a yearning for the joys of childhood. This became evident with La Strada, Fellini's first world success. With La Strada, Fellini brought poetry to dreary everyday life But unlike his fellow countrymen who remained true to neo-realism, Fellini quickly added fantasy and fairytale, poetic and playful elements to his cinematic cosmos. His first films were in black-and-white, had a hard realistic core, and focused on figures on the fringes of society. One masterpiece after the other then followed. The White Sheik (1952) was the first film he directed alone. A famous Fellini scene: Anita Ekberg in Rome's Trevi Fountain in 'La Dolce Vita' Image: Imago/ZUMA Pressįive years later, Fellini made his first film, together with director Alberto Lattuada: Variety Lights. Many more would later follow: eight nominations and four Oscars in the best foreign language film category. His collaboration on the screenplay for the neo-realist classic Rome, Open City (1945) by Roberto Rossellini was immediately rewarded with an Oscar nomination. And with his 'truly Italian' films, Fellini has inspired audiences around the world.įellini began his work at the end of the 1930s as a cartoonist, then wrote for the radio, worked as a gag writer and then finally began in film, initially as a screenwriter.

Both there and in the Italian countryside, he created and invented his very own world, letting his characters live and die there. Rome ultimately became the second home of the film director. Federico Fellini, born in Rimini on the Adriatic Coast on January 20, 1920, did not want to leave his homeland.

Federico fellini 8 12 original movie poster