![]() ![]() ![]() La strada ( The Road, 1954) was an even bigger success, starring Fellini’s immensely talented wife Giulietta Masina as Gelsomina, a sort of “holy fool” who tours the Italian countryside as an assistant to the strongman Zampanò (Anthony Quinn). This film, too, failed to meet with public favour, but Fellini finally clicked with his next effort, the semi-autobiographical film I vitelloni (1953), about a group of young loafers who hang about in a small Italian town waiting aimlessly for something to happen in their lives the film would much later be remade by George Lucas as American Graffiti (1973), set in a small California town. His second film, now as solo director, was Lo sceicco bianco ( The White Sheik, 1952), a parody of the popular fumetti comic books then popular in Italy, which used captioned photos rather than drawings to tell their story. In 1950, Fellini made his first film as a director, Luci del varietà ( Variety Lights, co-directed with Lattuada), but this modest comedy, about a vaudeville troupe, failed at the box office. ![]() He wrote several more scripts for Rossellini, including the scenario for the groundbreaking “Il Miracolo” (“The Miracle”, one of two segments in L’amore, 1948), in which Fellini also had a major role as an actor.įellini then served as an assistant director and/or scenarist for the young Italian directors Pietro Germi and Alberto Lattuada, both of whom had attended the Italian national film school Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia. The success of the film encouraged Fellini to delve further into the cinema. A chance meeting with Roberto Rossellini developed into a friendship, and Rossellini asked Fellini to help with the script for the film that became Roma, città aperta ( Open City, 1945). By the early 1940s, Fellini was writing scripts for Italian radio programs, and developed an interest in film as a result of his work in the relatively new medium.Īfter the fall of Mussolini, Fellini and some friends opened up a storefront business that he christened “The Funny Face Shop”, where, functioning as a sidewalk sketch artist, he drew caricatures of American soldiers. However, Fellini never actually took any classes, and instead spent his time as a court reporter, where he met the actor Aldo Fabrizi, who hired Fellini at a nominal salary as an assistant. Federico Fellini, one of the cinema’s greatest artists, began his career as a cartoonist, and then enrolled in the University of Rome Law School in 1938 in order to avoid being drafted into Mussolini’s fascist army. ![]()
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