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8 1/2

8 1/2

Original Name: 8 1/2
English Name: 8 1/2
Year – 1963
Run Time – 138'
Language – Italian, French, German, English
Type(Colour/B&W) – Black & White
Country – Italy, France
Director – Federico Fellini
Producer – Angelo Rizzoli
Cast – Marcello Mastroianni, Anouk Aimée, Rossella Falk, Sandra Milo, Bruno Agostini
Screenplay – Federico Fellini, Ennio Flaiano, Tullio Pinelli, Brunello Rondi
Cinematographer – Gianni Di Venanzo
Editor – Leo Catozzo
Sound Designer – Alberto Bartolomei, Mario Faraoni
Music Composer – Nino Rota
Costume Designer – Piero Gherardi
Production Designer –Piero Gherardi
Production Company – Cineriz, Francinex
World Sales – Umbrella Entertainment

Festivals:

  • Cannes FF 1963
  • San Sebastian IFF 1963
  • Moscow IFF 1963

Selected Filmography:

  • 1973 Amarcord
  • 1960 La Dolce Vita
  • 1957 Nights of Cabiria
  • 1954 La Strada

Director’s Biography:

One of Italy’s great modern directors, Federico Fellini was a larger-than-life maestro who created an inimitable cinematic style combining surreal carnival with incisive social critique. Fellini started as a screenwriter and collaborated with Roberto Rossellini on Roma, Open City. Fellini broke away from neorealism’s political strictures with the beloved La strada, and from there boldly explored his obsessions with the circus, societal decadence, spiritual redemption, and, most controversially, women. His work and Fellini himself remain to be an influential and indivisible part of cinema.

Synopsis:

Exhausted from the success of his latest blockbuster film, already feeling pressured to come up with another smash hit, and suffering from a massive creative block, filmmaker Guido Anselmi heads off for a mountain resort to recharge and come up with a new idea. His search for inspiration leads him down many strange, twisted paths and these journeys provide the basis of the rollicking, at times riotous, long and mesmerizing 8 1/2. The film is a shimmering dream, a circus, and a magic act.