Federico Fellini

Federico Fellini was an Italian film director and screenwriter. Known for his distinct style that blends fantasy and baroque images with earthiness, he is recognized as one of the most influential filmmakers of all time. Some of his films are placed in polls such as in Cahiers du cinma and Sight amp Sound as some of the greatest films of all time, with his 1963 filmbeing listed as the 10th greatest film of all time by Sight amp Sound.

Fellini was born onJanuary 1920, to middleclass parents in Rimini, then a small town on the Adriatic Sea. His father, Urbano Fellini , born to a family of Romagnol peasants and small landholders from Gambettola, moved to Rome in 1915 as a baker apprenticed to the Pantanella pasta factory. His mother, Ida Barbiani , came from a bourgeiois Catholic family of Roman merchants. Despite her familys vehement disapproval, she had eloped with Urbano in 1917 to live at his parents home in Gambettola. A civil marriage followed in 1918 with the religious ceremony held at Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome a year later.

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