Federico Fellini
费德里科·费里尼
Italian director, 1920–1993. His early films belong to neorealism; from the 1960s he built them instead around memory and dream. La strada, Nights of Cabiria and 8½ are among the best known, and he received the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film four times.
Career
Fellini wrote screenplays for Rossellini and others through the 1940s and began directing on his own in 1950. La strada, Il bidone and Nights of Cabiria still take their subjects from the margins of postwar Italy, and the first and third each received the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
La Dolce Vita, in 1960, replaced continuous plot with seven days and nights of loosely linked episodes, and 8½ went further, removing the boundary between dream and present action so that the two could change places within a single shot. From the 1970s, Amarcord and Casanova were built largely on sets at Cinecittà, with location work falling away.
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