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Federico Fellini
Federico Fellini was an Italian film director and screenwriter known for his distinctive style that blends fantasy and baroque images with earthiness. Recognized as one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers of all time, his films rank highly in critical polls such as that of Cahiers du Cinéma and Sight & Sound, which lists his 1963 film 8½ as the 10th-greatest film of all time.
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entertainment · Italian filmmaker (1920–1993) · film director · screenwriter · satirist · writer · director · author · film screenwriter · draftsperson · journalist · also Federico Fellini, Fellini, Federico, Frederico Fellini, Fellas
Born 20 January 1920 · Died 31 October 1993 · Q7371
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2026· 43 entries
lavozdegalicia.es: El OUFF estrenará en España una película basada en un texto original de Federico Fellini
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IMDb: Federico Borgia’s Dark Comedy ‘Prince’ Boarded by Alpha Violet Ahead of London Film Festival World Premiere (Exclusive)
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Newsday: Inter fullback Federico Dimarco wins top honors at Italian players' association gala
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produ: Federico Cecchetti, director mexicano: “Jíkuri es un espejo en el que dos culturas se encuentran”
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“Görevimin ne olduğuna dair şüphelerin içinde yaşıyorum. Bana kalırsa bunda bir saygınlık var; çalışmaya devam etmekte.”
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“[Riferendosi al ventennio fascista] È stato un miracolo se non siamo cresciuti completamente imbecilli.”
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“What is an artist? A provincial who finds himself somewhere between a physical reality and a metaphysical one... It’s this in-between that I’m calling a province, this frontier country between the tangible world and the intangible one — which is really the realm of the artist.”
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“Olduğundan farklı bir yerde bulunmayı özlemek, olduğundan başka biri olmayı istemek ya da aniden sıkılmak her şeyden.”
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“Un buen vino es como un buen filme: dura un instante y te deja en la boca un sabor a gloria; es nuevo en cada sorbo y, como ocurre con las películas, nace y renace en cada saboreador.”
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“Birçok insan gibi benim de bir dinim yok ve dalgalarda savrulan küçük bir teknede oturuyorum.”
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“O cinema é o caminho mais direto para competir com Deus.”
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“Voir le recueil de citations : La dolce vita”
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“Televisar una película interrumpida por la publicidad es como asfixiarla.”
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“Dedem duvar örerdi, Babam duvar örerdi, Ben duvar örüyorum, Peki hala bir evimiz niçin yok?”
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“Nuestros sueños son nuestra única vida real.”
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“Varolmuş şey bulunmuş ve hiçbir zaman doğru değildir. O her zaman ve yalnızca kendisidir.”
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“No hay un final. No existe un principio. Solamente existe una infinita pasión por la vida.”
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“Benim için tek gerçekçi kişi, hayalperest olandır. Çünkü o kendi gerçekliğinin tanığıdır.”
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“O cinema é como uma velha prostituta, como o circo e a variedade, e sabe dar muitas formas de prazer.”
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“La televisión es el espejo donde se refleja la derrota de todo nuestro sistema cultural.”
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“İyi bir filmin kusurları olması gerekir. Hayat gibi, insanlar gibi.”
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“Caro Giulio [Andreotti], la tua premurosa telefonatina di ieri sera mi ha sorpreso e toccato. Sei proprio molto simpatico! Ammiro e invidio la tua generosa disponibilità verso gli amici. Proverò anche a telefonare a Berlusconi per ringraziarlo dell'omaggio estremamente amichevole.”
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“Voir le recueil de citations : Rome, ville ouverte”
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“El único realista de verdad es el visionario.”
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“Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.”
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“Deneyim başka şeylere bakarken kazandığınız şeydir.”
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“Benigni e Villaggio sono due ricchezze ignorate e trascurate. Due attori che una cinematografia sana e vitale... Ignorarne il potenziale mi sembra una delle tante colpe che si possono imputare ai nostri produttori.”
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“Condenar la televisión sería tan ridículo como excomulgar la electricidad o la teoría de la gravedad.”
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“Farklı bir dil, farklı bir yaşam görüşü demektir.”
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“Avevo sempre sognato, da grande, di fare l'aggettivo. Ne sono lusingato. Cosa intendano gli americani con "felliniano" posso immaginarlo: opulento, stravagante, onirico, bizzarro, nevrotico, fregnacciaro. Ecco, fregnacciaro è il termine giusto.”
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“All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster’s autobiography.”
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“Sadece yaptığınız şeyde var olursunuz.”
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“Il cinema non ha bisogno della grande idea, degli amori infiammati, degli sdegni: ti impone un solo obbligo quotidiano, quello di fare.”
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“Il cinema è il modo più diretto di entrare in competizione con Dio.”
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“Il cinema è come una vecchia puttana, come il circo e il varietà, e sa come dare molte forme di piacere.”
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“Cinema is an old whore, like circus and variety, who knows how to give many kinds of pleasure. Besides, you can’t teach old fleas new dogs.”
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“overidealized concepts of life.”
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“on which our minds live: the past, the present, and the conditional — the realm of fantasy”
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Hacerse la crítica: CASANOVA (1976) DE FEDERICO FELLINI
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La Voz de Galicia: La «dolce» vida de Fellini, el conspiranoico Gibson y Loles como la suegra de Segura
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Encyclopaedia Britannica: La strada | Nino Rota, Fellini, 1954
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Far Out Magazine: Roger McGuinn picks the 1966 album that perfectly captures an acid trip: “Like a Fellini film”
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2024· 2 entries
The Guardian: Italian actor Sandra Milo, star of Federico Fellini’s 8½, dies aged 90
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The Guardian: La Strada review – Fellini’s circus becomes a heartfelt ballet
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2016· 1 entry
“Federico Fellini como citado por Maurizio Di Fazio in: Indimenticabile "Ultimo tango a Parigi", 40 anni fa la condanna al rogo, Repubblica.it, 29 de janeiro de 2016.”
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2015· 1 entry
“Federico Fellini como citado in SENTIERI DI CELLULOIDE n.8: La Storia del Cinema vissuta dai Capolavori del Neorealismo..., página 7, Joe Denti - Simonelli Editore, 2015, ISBN 8876476164, 9788876476167, 56 páginas”
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2014· 2 entries
The Blue Devils Drum and Bugle Corps performed their program Felliniesque, a show inspired by the works and life of Fellini
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Variety announced that French director Sylvain Chomet was moving forward with The Thousand Miles, a project based on various Fellini works, including his unpublished drawings and writings
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2011· 1 entry
“Federico Fellini como citado in: Comunicare con il Video - Página 74, Alessandro Bandinelli & Valentina Zaggia - Bruno Editore, 2011, ISBN 8861743218, 9788861743212”
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2007· 1 entry
Total Film magazine ranked Fellini at No
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2003· 1 entry
“I'm a Born Liar: A Fellini Lexicon (2003) Edited by Damian Pettigrew ISBN 0306805200”
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2002· 1 entry
MovieMaker ranked Fellini No
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1996· 1 entry
Entertainment Weekly ranked Fellini tenth on its "50 Greatest Directors" list
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1993· 3 entries
Died 1993-10-31.
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Was in communion with the Catholic Church
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According to reports, when Fellini died in 1993, he was in communion with the Catholic Church.
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1991· 2 entries
Awarded Academy Honorary Award (1991).
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“Every Time We Say Goodbye" in Sight and Sound [London] ( June 1991)”
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1990· 1 entry
Awarded Praemium Imperiale (1990).
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1989· 2 entries
Awarded European Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award (1989).
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As a graphic novel with artwork by Milo Manara and as Trip to Tulum in America in 1990
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1987· 1 entry
“Federico Fellini como citado in: Fellini - Página 494, Tullio Kezich - Camunia, 1987 - 567 páginas”
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1982· 1 entry
The first major exhibition of 63 drawings by Fellini was held in Paris, Brussels, and the Pierre Matisse Gallery in New York
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1976· 2 entries
He preferred to move within the world of the moderate left, and voted for the Italian Republican Party (PRI) of his friend Ugo La Malfa as well as the reformist socialists of Pietro Nenni, another friend of his, and voted only once for the Christian Democracy party (Democrazia Cristiana, DC) in 1976 to keep the Communists out of power.
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“Fellini on Fellini (1976) edited by Anna Keel and Christian Strich; translated by Isabel Quigly.”
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1965· 1 entry
“On the autobiographical nature of his films, in The Atlantic (December 1965)”
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1964· 1 entry
Fellini took LSD under the supervision of Emilio Servadio, his psychoanalyst during the 1954 production of La Strada
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1963· 1 entry
To name his ten favorite films, he ranked I Vitelloni number one
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1960· 2 entries
Two times the Moscow International Film Festival in 1963 and 1987, and the Career Golden Lion at the 42nd Venice International Film Festival in 1985
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An independent film company, for Fellini and production manager Clemente Fracassi to discover and produce new talent
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1957· 1 entry
Awarded Academy Award for Best International Feature Film (1957).
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1953· 2 entries
Earned Silver Lion (1953).
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I Vitelloni found favour with the critics and public
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1950· 1 entry
Fellini co-produced and co-directed with Alberto Lattuada Variety Lights (Luci del varietà), his first feature film
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1949· 1 entry
And based on the fotoromanzi, the photographed cartoon strip romances popular in Italy at the time
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1947· 1 entry
Fellini and Sergio Amidei received an Oscar nomination for the screenplay of Rome, Open City
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1946· 1 entry
Fellini was entrusted to film the Sicilian scenes in Maiori
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1941· 1 entry
Published Il mio amico Pasqualino, a 74-page booklet in ten chapters describing the absurd adventures of Pasqualino, an alter ego
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1939· 1 entry
With present-day footage of himself at work on a screen adaptation of Franz Kafka's Amerika
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1938· 1 entry
Where he published his first cartoon in the weekly 420
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1937· 1 entry
Fellini opened Febo, a portrait shop in Rimini, with the painter Demos Bonini
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1933· 1 entry
The year of the maiden voyage of the transatlantic ocean liner SS Rex (which is shown in Amarcord)
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1929· 1 entry
Made friends with Luigi Titta Benzi, later a prominent Rimini lawyer (and the model for young Titta in Amarcord (1973))
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1926· 1 entry
Discovered the world of Grand Guignol, the circus with Pierino the Clown and the movies
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1924· 1 entry
Fellini began primary school at an institute run by the nuns of San Vincenzo in Rimini, later attending the Carlo Tonini public school two years afterward
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1920· 1 entry
Born 1920-01-20.
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1918· 1 entry
With the religious ceremony held at Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome a year later
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1917· 1 entry
To live at his parents' home in Gambettola
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1915· 1 entry
As a baker apprenticed to the Pantanella pasta factory
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