Directed by Federico Fellini
Writtten by Federico Fellini and Tonino Guerra
Music by Nino Rota
Cinematography by Giuseppe Rotunno
Editing by Ruggero Mastroianni
Released in 1975.  Won Oscar for best foreign film in 1975.

Cast
Pupella Maggio...............Titta's Mother
Armando Brancia............Titta's Father
Magali Noël......................Gradisca
Ciccio Ingrassia...............Uncle Teo
Nando Orfei......................Pataca
Luigi Rossi........................Lawyer
Bruno Zanin.....................Titta
Gianfilippo Carcano........Don Baravelli
Josiane Tanzilli............... Volpina
Maria Beluzzi...................Tobacconist
Giuseppe Ianigro.............Titta's Grandfather
 

This movie is one on which you can write a paper, and consequently I provide no plot or analysis. Try and find in the movie the themes Fellini talks about in his interview (e.g., individual, political, and social infantilism; empty rhetoric, etc.). In addition, read the handouts and the downloads.

Here are some further pointers:

• Usually, in Fellini's movies, fog, smoke, wind, or obvious artificiality in sets or movement represent confusion, empty rhetoric, or the presence of a myth which is debilitating to the characters living it. In this context consider, for example, the episode of the shipliner Rex; the Titta/Gradisca in the movie theater segment; the fog in which Titta's grandfather cannot find his way; the Gradisca/Prince encounter; the arrival of the Federale.
• Is the infantile behavior of the children and young men of the town really different from that of the adults or their teachers? If you don't think so, explain why.
• How are the townfolks sexual fantasies related to fascism?
• What does it take to be a fascist, according to Fellini?  Could you be one?  If so, why?
• Obviously, a film to keep in mind in writing your paper is A Special Day .  For example, how are Gradisca's sexual fantasies related to Antonietta's?
• Of course, Fascism was an Italian phenomenon.  But can you identify myths in your own culture/life that play the same soporific and stupifying role as the one Fellini is so exercised about?