Description
Images courtesy of Park Circus/MGM Studios
Synopsis:
After his young lover, Gitone, leaves him for another man, Encolpio decides to kill himself, but a sudden earthquake destroys his home before he has a chance to do so. Now wandering around Rome in the time of Nero, Encolpio encounters one bizarre and surreal scene after another. He’s invited to a poetry reading that ends in violence; is taken hostage by pirates; and is even forced to battle a gladiator disguised as a minotaur in a giant labyrinth.
Awards 1970:
Silver Ribbon for Best Supporting Actor: Fanfulla
Silver Ribbon for Best Cinematography, Color: Giuseppe Rotunno
Silver Ribbon for Best Production Design: Danilo Donati and Luigi Scaccianoce
Silver Ribbon for Best Costume Design: Danilo Donati
Academy Award Nomintaion for Best Direction
About the directior:
Italian filmmaker Federico Fellini was born in Rimini, a resort town on the Adriatic coast. He worked in Rome as a journalist and cartoonist in one of the most popular comic magazines, Marcus Aurelius, known for its anti-fascist orientation. Fellini’s acquaintance with Roberto Rossellini happened at the time of the liberation of Rome by the allied forces from the dictatorship of Mussolini. Thus, the maestro’s career began with the co-writing of the script for the first film of Italian neorealism, Rome – an Open City. Fellini’s second film, Mama’s Sons, received the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival, and the script was nominated for an Oscar.
The film The Road brought Fellini extraordinary success around the world and won the Oscar for Best Foreign Film. This was followed by the next masterpiece – Nights of Cabiria, a touching story of an Italian prostitute, played by the muse of his life – Juliet Mazina. From the work, La Dolce Vita, it became obvious that Federico Fellini is a genius of a global scale.
Filmography:
The White Sheikh (1952), I Viteloni (1953), Love in the City (1953), La Strada (1954), Nights of Cabiria (1957), La Dolce Vita (1960), Boccaccio ‘70 (1962), 8½ (1963), Juliet of the Spirits (1965), Spirits of the Dead (1967), Satyricon (1969), The Clowns (1970), Roma (1972), Amarcord (1973), Casanova (1976), Orchestra Rehearsal (1979), City of Women (1980), And The Ship Sails On (1983), Ginger and Fred (1986), Intervista (1987), The Voice of the Moon (1990).