I Vitelloni

I Vitelloni Italian pronunciationi vitelloni is a 1953 Italian comedydrama directed by Federico Fellini from a screenplay by Fellini, Ennio Flaiano and Tullio Pinelli. The film launched the career of Alberto Sordi, one of postwar Italys most significant and popular comedians, who stars with Franco Fabrizi and Franco Interlenghi in a story of five young Italian men at crucial turning points in their small town lives. Recognized as a pivotal work in the directors artistic evolution, the film has distinct autobiographical elements that mirror important societal changes in 1950s Italy. Recipient of both the Venice Film Festival Silver Lion in 1953, and an Academy Award nomination for Best Writing in 1958, the films success restored Fellinis reputation after the commercial failure of The White Sheik 1952.

Unemployed and living off their parents, Faustos twentysomething friends kill time shuffling from empty cafs to seedy pool halls to aimless walks across desolate windswept beaches. During the interim, they perform immature pranks. Taunting honest road workers from the safety of a luxury car they never earned, theyre given a sound thrashing when it runs out of gas.Moraldo Rubini Franco Interlenghi, Sandras brother and the youngest of the five vitelloni, uncomfortably observes Faustos womanizing as he ponders his own existence, dreaming of ways to escape to the big city. Riccardo Riccardo Fellini, the baritone, nourishes unrealistic ambitions to sing and act. Alberto Alberto Sordi, the daydreamer, is supported by his mother and selfreliant sister, Olga Claude Farell. Vulnerable and effeminate, hes unhappy that Olga is secretly dating a married man. Leopoldo Leopoldo Trieste, the aspiring dramatist, writes a play that he discusses with Sergio Natali Achille Majeroni, an eccentric stage actor he hopes will perform in it. ........

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