33° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
FESTA MOBILE 2015

GIULIETTA DEGLI SPIRITI

JULIET OF THE SPIRITS
by Federico Fellini
Country: Italy, France
Year: 1965
Duration: 150'


Giulietta Boldrini is an upper-class Roman woman who seems to have everything: wealth, prestige and a brilliant and handsome husband. But the real story is quite different: inside, she feels that her relationship with her husband, who she suspects is cheating on her, has come to a dead end, as have her often shallow relationships with the people around her. She is also burdened by the Catholic education she received in school, which keeps her anchored to suffocating conventions and behavior that are now meaningless. Lonely and humiliated by the confirmation of her husband’s infidelity, Giulietta realizes she has to free herself of the interior and exterior chaos that is gripping her. Maybe she can find freedom in the irrational and occult world; or perhaps she can find new vitality by following the sardonic and dynamic example of her grandfather, who ran off with a young ballerina to escape from the angst of his bourgeois existence.

Biography

film director

Federico Fellini

Federico Fellini (Rimini, Italy, 1920-Rome, Italy, 1993) moved to Rome in 1939; he got his start there as a cartoonist for “Marc’Aurelio,” and later collaborated as a screenwriter for directors such as Lattuada, Germi and Rossellini. His first feature film, which he made together with Alberto Lattuada in 1950, was Variety Lights; two years later he made The White Sheik, followed by I Vitelloni, which won a Silver Lion in Venice. In 1954, he won an Oscar with The Road and this success was repeated three years later with another Oscar for Nights of Cabiria. In 1960, he directed La Dolce Vita, which won a Golden Palm in Cannes. In 1963, he directed 8 1/2 and one decade later he won his fourth Oscar with Amarcord. The Voice of the Moon (1990) was his final film and in 1993 he received an Oscar for lifetime achievement.

FILMOGRAFIA

Luci del varietà (coregia/codirector Alberto Lattuada, 1950), Lo sceicco bianco (1952), I vitelloni (1953), La strada (1954), Il bidone (1955), Le notti di Cabiria (1957), La dolce vita (1960), Boccaccio ’70 (ep. Le tentazioni del dottor Antonio, 1962), 8 1/2 (1963), Giulietta degli spiriti (1965), Tre passi nel delirio (ep. Toby Dammit, 1968), Fellini - Satyricon (1969), Roma (1972), Amarcord (1973), Il Casanova di Federico Fellini (1976), Prova d’orchestra (1978), La città delle donne (1980), E la nave va (1983), Ginger e Fred (1986), Intervista (1987), La voce della luna (1990).

Cast

& Credits

regia/director
Federico Fellini
soggetto/story
Federico Fellini, Tullio Pinelli
sceneggiatura/screenplay
Federico Fellini, Tullio Pinelli, Ennio Flaiano, Brunello Rondi
fotografia/cinematography
Gianni Di Venenzo
montaggio/film editing
Ruggero Mastroianni
scenografia/production design
Giantito Burchiellaro, Luciano Riccieri, E. Benazzi Taglietti
costumi/costume design
Piero Gherardi
musica/music
Nino Rota
suono/sound
Mario Faraoni, Mario Morigi
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Giulietta Masina (Giulietta Boldrini), Sandra Milo (Suzy-Iris-Fanny), Mario Pisu (Giorgio), Valentina Cortese (Valentina), Valeska Gert (Pijma), José Luis de Villalonga (un amico di Giorgio/Giorgio’s friend), Friedrich von Ledebur (medium), Caterina Boratto (la madre di Giulietta/Giulietta’s mother), Lou Gilbert (nonno/grandfather), Luisa Della Noce (Adele), Silvana Jachino (Dolores), Milena Vukotic (Elisabetta)
produzione/production
Rizzoli Film, Francoritz Production


contatti/contacts
Cineteca Nazionale
Laura Argento
laura.argento@fondazionecsc.it
www.fondazionecsc.it
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