Country: France
Year: 1968
Duration: 43'
Toby Dammit is an alcoholic British actor who goes to Rome to act in a Catholic western in exchange for a Ferrari. Surrounded by journalists and producers, fed up with everything, and in a constant alcoholic haze, on TV he says he only believes in the Devil. And every now and then he sees a girl holding a strange ball. Inspired by Never Bet the Devil Your Head - A Tale with a Moral by Poe, and starring a devastated Terrence Stamp, a small, dark masterpiece by Fellini, in which the world of film is scarier than a nightmare.
Biography
film director
Federico Fellini
(Rimini, 1920 – Rome, 1993) is one of the greatest authors in film history. During his extraordinary career, which began as a screenwriter in the 1940s, he won five Academy Awards, including four for best foreign film (La strada, Le notti di Cabiria, 8½ e Amarcord) and one for Lifetime Achievement in 1993, a few months before dying. In 1985 the Venice Film Festival had already awarded him the Golden Lion for lifetime achievement. He also won the Palme d'Or at Cannes with his most famous film, La Dolce Vita (1960). With Marcello Mastroianni he created one of the most famous artistic partnerships ever. He was posed with actress and collaborator Giulietta Masina.
FILMOGRAFIA
Luci del varietà (co-regia Alberto Lattuada, 1950), Lo sceicco bianco (1952), L’amore in città (ep. Agenzia matrimoniale, 1953), 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), 8½ (1963), Giulietta degli spiriti (1965), Tre passi nel delirio (ep. Toby Dammit, 1968), Fellini Satyricon (1969), Block-notes di un regista (doc, tv, 1969), I clowns (tv, 1970), Roma (1972), Amarcord (1973), Il Casanova di Federico Fellini (1976), Prova d’orchestra (1979), La città delle donne (1980), E la nave va (1983), Ginger e Fred (1986), Intervista (1987), La voce della Luna (1990).
Cast
& Credits
federico fellini
TRE PASSI NEL DELIRIO - TOBY DAMMIT
Italia-Usa/Italy-USA, 1968, 43’, col.
regia, sceneggiatura/director, screenplay
Federico Fellini
soggetto/story
dal racconto Mai scommettere la testa con il diavolo di/from the short story Never Bet the Devil Your Head - A Tale with a Moral by Edgar Allan Poe
fotografia/cinematography
Giuseppe Rotunno
montaggio/film editing
Ruggero Mastroianni
scenografia, costumi/production design, costume design
Piero Tosi
musica/music
Nino Rota
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Terence Stamp (Toby Dammit), Salvo Randone (Padre/Father Spagna), Antonia Pietrosi (attrice/actress)
produttori/producers
Alberto Grimaldi, Raymond Eger
produzione/production
P.E.A., Les Films Marceau, Cocinor
