“The sweet life” / “La Dolce Vita” in 1960, which won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, was also a turning point. However, Federico Fellini owes his international success to “The Road” / “La Strada”, in 1954. In 1952, he directed his first film, “The White Sheik” / “Lo sceicco bianco”, and in 1953 he made "The Bullocks" / “I vitelloni”, which definitively established the Fellinian universe. He made his debut in the cinema as a scriptwriter and as assistant scriptwriter to Roberto Rossellini for the film “Rome, Open City” / “Roma città aperta" in 1945. Attracted by journalism and press cartoons, he moved to Rome in 1939, where he was hired by a large humoristic weekly magazine. During his youth, he was marked by power, the church and fascism.
We know him through his many films and masterpieces, but we know less about his talent as a draughtsman.įederico Fellini was born in Rimini, on the Adriatic coast. “Why I draw the characters of my films? Why do I take graphic notes of their faces, of the noses, of the moustaches, of the ties, of the bags, of the way to cross the legs, of those people that come to visit me in the office? Perhaps I have already told that it is a way to start watching the film in face, to see the type it is, the attempt to fix something, even though minuscule, to the limit of the nothingness, but that seems to have something to do with the film, and covertly it speaks to me.”įellini is considered one of the great masters of filmmaking.
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