Intervista
Intervista EnglishInterview is a 1987 Italian film directed by Federico Fellini.
The next morning, Fellini accompanies the Japanese TV crew on a brief tour of the studios. As they walk past absurd TV commercials in production, Fellinis casting director presents him with four young actors shes found to interpret Karl Rossmann, the leading role in the maestros film version of Kafkas Amerika. Fellini introduces the Japanese to the female custodian of Cinecitt Nadia Ottaviani but she succeeds in putting off the interview by disappearing into the deserted backlot of Studioto gather dandelions to make herbal tea. Meanwhile, Fellinis assistant director Maurizio Mein is on location with other crew members at the Casa del Passeggero, a once cheap hotel now converted into a drugstore. Fellini wants to include it in his film about the first time he visited Cinecitt as a journalist in 1938 during the Fascist era. Past and present intermingle as Fellini interacts with his younger self played by aspiring actor, Sergio Rubini. After the crew reconstruct the facade of the Casa del Passeggero elsewhere in Rome, a fake tramway takes young FelliniRubini from Americas Far West with Indian warriors on a clifftop to a herd of wild elephants off the coast of Ethiopia. Arriving at Cinecitt, he sets off to interview matinee idol, Greta Gonda.Seamlessly, the illusion takes over the realities of moviemaking as the viewer is thrown into two feature films being directed by tyrannical directors. But only for a short while for the rest of the film, Fellini and his assistant director Maurizio Mein scramble to recruit the right cast and build the sets for the film version of Amerika, a fictitious adaptation that Fellini uses as a pretext to shoot his filminprogress. This allows FelliniRubini to go back and forth in time to experience filmmaking firsthand including disgruntled actors who failed their auditions, Marcello Mastroianni in a TV commercial as Mandrake the Magician, a bomb threat, a visit to Anita Ekbergs house where she and Mastroianni relive their La Dolce
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