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Federico Fellini
Director -
Tullio Pinelli
Story -
Mario Chiari
Production Design -
Ennio Flaiano
Story -
Nino Rota
Original Music Composer -
Luigi Giacosi
Production Manager -
Carlo Carlini
Director of Photography -
Franco Villa
Camera Operator
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CinemaSerf 3/28/2022 2:19:31 PM
I will admit that I still struggle to quite understand the awe Fellini seems to generate amongst fans. His films are beautifully shot but usually involve the most shallow of individuals faffing around in a vacuous world of privilege and emptiness. This one is much the same - "Fausto" (Franco Fabrizi) is a bit of a playboy who is stuck in an unhappy marriage with the sister of his friend "Moraldo" (Franco Interlenghi). He still plays away from home, and she usually forgives him until at last she has had enough and absconds with their child. He and his friend set off to find her... Perhaps he has grown up, and he does really care? I didn't really know, nor care myself. The characters are womanising, drunken, louts - good looking, I suppose - but their arrogance towards those less fortunate is irritating; their attitudes towards women - an approach I find common in Fellini films - almost prehistoric. It does have some moments of comedy and is a joy to watch from any aesthetic perspective. Good, but not great....
Leopoldo Trieste
Leopoldo VannucciAlberto Sordi
AlbertoFranco Interlenghi
Moraldo RubiniLino Toffolo
A Boy at the Carnival (uncredited)Paola Borboni
Signora RubiniJean Brochard
Francescco MorettiLída Baarová
Giulia CurtiFranco Fabrizi
Fausto Moretti