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I Vitelloni
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1953 film directed by Federico Fellini
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I Vitelloni is a 1953 Italian comedy-drama directed by Federico Fellini, who co-wrote the screenplay with Ennio Flaiano and Tullio Pinelli. Shot in black-and-white by cinematographer Otello Martelli with music by Nino Rota, it stars Alberto Sordi, Franco Fabrizi, Franco Interlenghi, and Leopoldo Trieste, and was filmed in Rome, Florence, Viterbo, and Lido di Ostia. Production design was by Mario Chiari, and the film examines idleness, responsibility, and maturity. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay, distributed by Janus Films and Netflix, and named among the 100 Italian films to be saved. It premiered on 17 September 1953 and runs 103 minutes.
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7.7Five young men dream of success as they drift lazily through life in a small Italian village. Fausto, the group's leader, is a womanizer; Riccardo craves fame; Alberto is a hopeless dreamer; Moraldo fantasizes about life in the city; and Leopoldo is an aspiring playwright. As Fausto chases a string of women, to the horror of his pregnant wife, the other four blunder their way from one uneventful experience to the next.
Cast
- Franco Interlenghi as Moraldo Rubini
- Alberto Sordi as Alberto
- Franco Fabrizi as Fausto Moretti
- Leopoldo Trieste as Leopoldo Vannucci
- Riccardo Fellini as Riccardo
- Leonora Ruffo as Sandra Rubini
Themes
- friendship
- pregnancy
- ladykiller
- black and white
- blunt
- neo realism
- italian neo realism
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Federico Fellini
- Screenplay by
- Federico Fellini, Ennio Flaiano , Tullio Pinelli
- Story by
- Federico Fellini, Tullio Pinelli
- Produced by
- Lorenzo Pegoraro, Mario De Vecchi, Jacques Bar
- Starring
- Alberto Sordi , Franco Fabrizi , Franco Interlenghi , Leopoldo Trieste
- Narrated by
- Riccardo Cucciolla
- Cinematography
- Carlo Carlini, Otello Martelli , Luciano Trasatti
- Edited by
- Rolando Benedetti
- Music by
- Nino Rota
- Production companies
- Peg-Films, Cité Films
- Distributed by
- ENIC (Italy) RKO Pictures (France)
- Release dates
- 26 August 1953 ( 1953-08-26 ) ( Venice ) 17 September 1953 ( 1953-09-17 ) (Italy) 23 April 1954 ( 1954-04-23 ) (France)
- Running time
- 108 minutes
- Countries
- Italy, France
- Language
- Italian
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- drama film
- Country of origin
- Italy
- Original language
- Italian
- Main subject
- maturity
- Director
- Federico Fellini
- Screenwriter
- Ennio Flaiano
- Composer
- Nino Rota
- Cinematographer
- Otello Martelli
- Narrative location
- Italy
- Filming location
- Lido di Ostia
- Duration
- 100
- FilmAffinity ID
- 282809
- Distribution format
- video on demand
- Image
- Vitelloni al bar.jpg
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- publication date
- 1953-08-26
- title
- I vitelloni
- color
- black-and-white
- nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay
- production designer
- Mario Chiari
- distributed by
- Netflix
- Commons category
- I vitelloni
- review score
- 87/100
- described by source
- 100 Italian films to be saved
Sources (13)
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Encyclopedic overview
I Vitelloni ( Italian pronunciation: [i vitelˈloːni], lit. "The Bullocks"; Romagnol slang for "The Slackers" or "The Layabouts") is a 1953 Italian comedy drama film directed by Federico Fellini from a screenplay written by himself, Ennio Flaiano, and Tullio Pinelli. It stars Franco Interlenghi, Alberto Sordi, Franco Fabrizi, Leopoldo Trieste, and Riccardo Fellini (the director's brother) as five young Italian men at crucial turning points in their small-town lives. Recognized as a pivotal work in Fellini's artistic evolution, the film has distinct autobiographical elements that mirror important societal changes in 1950s Italy.
Recipient of both the Venice Film Festival Silver Lion in 1953 and an Academy Award nomination for Best Writing in 1958, the film was also Fellini's first commercial success. In 2008, it was included on the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage’s 100 Italian films to be saved, a list of 100 films that "have changed the collective memory of the country between 1942 and 1978".
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