I VITELLONI

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• Release Year: 1956
• Genre: Drama, Foreign
• Plot: Five young men linger in post-adolescent limbo dreaming of adventure and escape from their small seacoast town. They while away their time spending the lira doled out by their indulgent families on drink, women, and nights at the local pool hall. Federico Fellini’s second solo directorial effort (originally released in the U.S. as The Young and the Passionate) is a semi-autobiographical masterpiece of sharply drawn character sketches: Skirt-chaser Fausto, forced to marry a girl he has impregnated; Alberto, the perpetual child; Leopoldo, a writer, thirsting for fame; and Moraldo, the only member of the group troubled by a moral conscience. An international success and recipient of an Academy Award® nomination for Best Original Screenplay, I Vitelloni compassionately details a year in the life of small-town layabouts struggling to find meaning in their lives.
• Cast: Franco Interlenghi, Alberto Sordi, Franco Fabrizi, Leopoldo Trieste, Riccardo Fellini, Leonora Ruffo, Jean Brochard, Claude Farell, Carlo Romano, Enrico Viarisio, Paola Borboni, Lída Baarová, Arlette Sauvage, Vira Silenti, Maja Niles, Achille Majeroni, Guido Martufi, Silvio Bagolini, Milvia Chianelli, Enzo Andronico, Alberto Anselmi, Gustavo De Nardo, Graziella De Roc, Giovanna Galli, Franca Gandolfi, Lilia Landi, Gigetta Morano, Lino Toffolo, Gondrano Trucchi, Federico Fellini, Ennio Flaiano, Tullio Pinelli
• Director: Federico Fellini
• Runtime: 1:47
• Company: Critereon Collection
• Media Format: Movie