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FELLINOPOLIS

By Silvia GIULIETTI

Documentary - Completed 2020

The world of Federico Fellini, inside of Cinecittà' studios, populated by his incredible characters, told by his collaborators Oscar winners: L. Wertmuller, D. Ferretti, N. Piovani, M. Millenotti and by Ferruccio Castronuovo's backstages emerged from the past for over 40 years.

Festivals
& Awards

ICFF – Italian Contemporary Film Festival 2020

Best Documentary

Festa del Cinema di Roma 2020

Omaggi

Sofia International Film Festival 2021

Kaleidoskope

BAFICI – Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Indipendiente 2021

Películas sobre películas

Santa Barbara Film Festival 2021

Documentary Competition

Krakow Film Festival 2021

Somewhere in Europe

Shanghai International Film Festival 2021

Spectrum: SIFF Rhapsody

Fajr International Film Festival 2021

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- Year of production
- 2020
- Genres
- Documentary
- Countries
- ITALY
- Languages
- ITALIAN
- Budget
- N/A
- Duration
- 79 mn
- Director(s)
- Silvia GIULIETTI
- Writer(s)
- Silvia GIULIETTI
- Cast
- Lina WERTMULLER, Dante FERRETTI, Nicola PIOVANI, Maurizio MILLENOTTI, Ferruccio CASTRONUOVO, Norma GIACCHERO
- Producer(s)
- Silvia GIULIETTI (IFRAME SRL (ITALY)), Antonio LEVESI CERVI, Antonio FOLLARI (iframe), Brian SHARPE (iFrame)
- Synopsis
- Enter the world of Federico Fellini. The world behind his camera on the sets and backstages of his films captured by another hidden camera and brought to the light after 40 years. Pull back the curtain and watch the Maestro at work realising his dreams and creating his magic. The centenery of Fellini affords an opportunity to see him afresh, to discover new dimensions of the master film director.
  
  The hidden camera belonged to Ferruccio Castronuovo. Between 1976 and 1986, Ferruccio made films known at the time as ‘Specials’ for publicity purposes, showing the backstage activity of the films of Federico Fellini: ‘Casanova’, The City of Women’, ‘And the Ship Sails On’ and ‘Ginger and Fred’.
  
  Fellini trusted Ferruccio and gave him a carte blanche access to his sets and back lots. He afforded him an unusual intimacy unselfconsciously revealling everything to him and to us 40 years later. Ferruccio unveils, a world apart, a city of the imagination, populated by unique characters, which has a life of its own, a ‘Fellinopolis’.
  
  Fellini’s most trusted collaborators, many of them Oscar winners, speak of their relationships with the Maestro, of working and living with him. These exceptional interviews and the backstage footage reveal Fellini’s playfulness, perfectionism, his charm and charisma, his inventions and lies, his candour and his manipulations, a new take on the man and his methods. We learn what is was like to work with Fellini and why he attracted such dedication and devotion from his collaborators. They tell of Fellini’s views on women, on music, on method. Fellini tells of his unique approach to the cinema.
  
  Get lost with Fellini behind the scenes, meet the faces from the films, watch him rehearsing Marcello Mastroianni and Giulietta Masina, orchestrating the extras, gliding across the sets with his Mitchell camera, his voice echoing, creating his special effects in ‘Stage 5’ of Cinecittà. Enter the city of dreams. Enter Fellinopolis.

FELLINOPOLIS

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