Amarcord: Federico of the Spirits
By September 04, 2006
Federico Fellini was born and brought up in Rimini, Italy, a small seaside town in the province of Emilia-Romagna. Amarcord is a neologism he contrived, which Read more »
- Italy
- 1974
- 123 minutes
- Color
- 1.85:1
- Italian
- Spine #4
SYNOPSIS: In this carnivalesque portrait of provincial Italy during the Fascist period, Federico Fellini’s most personal film satirizes his youth and turns daily life into a circus of social rituals, adolescent desires, male fantasies, and political subterfuge, all set to Nina Rota’s classic, nostalgia-tinged score. The Academy Award–winning Amarcord remains one of cinema’s enduring treasures.
Cast & CreditsOpen
Cast
| Titta's mother | Pupella Maggio |
| Titta's father | Armando Brancia |
| Gradisca | Magali Noël |
| Uncle Teo | Ciccio Ingrassia |
| Uncle Lallo | Nando Orfei |
| The lawyer | Luigi Rossi |
| Titta | Bruno Zanin |
| Don Baravelli | Gianfilippo Carcano |
| Volpina | Josiane Tanzilli |
| The tobacconist | Maria Antonietta Beluzzi |
| Titta's grandfather | Giuseppe Ianigro |
Credits
| Director | Federico Fellini |
| Screenplay | Federico Fellini and Tonino Guerra |
| Cinematography | Giuseppe Rotunno |
| Producer | Franco Cristaldi |
| Editing | Ruggero Mastroianni |
| Music | Nino Rota |
Disc Features
SPECIAL EDITION DOUBLE-DISC SET FEATURES:
- All-new, restored high-definition digital transfer
- Audio commentary by film scholars Peter Brunette and Frank Burke
- American release trailer
- Deleted scene
- Optional English-dubbed soundtrack
- New and improved English subtitle translation
- New 45-minute documentary, Fellini’s Homecoming, on the complicated relationship between the celebrated director, his hometown, and his past
- Video interview with star Magali Noël
- Fellini’s drawings of characters in the film
- “Felliniana,” a presentation of ephemera devoted to Amarcord from the collection of Don Young
- Audio interviews with Fellini, his friends, and family by Gideon Bachmann
- New restoration demonstration
- PLUS: A book featuring a new essay by scholar Sam Rohdie, author of Fellini Lexicon, and the full text of Fellini’s 1967 essay, “My Rimini"
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Film Essays
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News
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September 01, 2010
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A Run on Amarcord!
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Sellout crowds have caused New York's Film Forum to extend its run of the new Janus Films restoration of Amarcord for another six days, until December 23. So, New Yorkers Read more »
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Press Notes
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