Roma (1972 film)
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| Directed by | Federico Fellini |
| Produced by | Turi Vasile |
| Screenplay by | Federico Fellini Bernardino Zapponi |
| Story by | Federico Fellini Bernardino Zapponi |
| Starring | Peter Gonzales |
| Music by |
Nino Rota Carlo Savina |
| Cinematography | Giuseppe Rotunno |
| Edited by | Ruggero Mastroianni |
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Les Productions Artistes Associés
Ultra Film |
| Distributed by | Ital-Noleggio Cinematografico (Italy) United Artists |
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Running time
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128 minutes 119 minutes (Cut edit) |
| Country | Italy France |
| Language | Italian German English French Latin Spanish |
| Box office | ITL869,900,000 |
Roma, also known as Fellini's Roma, is a 1972 semi-autobiographical, poetic comedy-drama film depicting director Federico Fellini's move from his native Rimini to Rome as a youth.
Roma is formed of a series of loosely connected episodes. The plot is minimal, and the only "character" to develop significantly is Rome herself. Peter Gonzales plays the young Fellini, and the film features mainly unknowns in the cast.
Federico Fellini recounts his youth in Rome, an extremely crude, corrupt, cruel city, without shame or morals. A memorable scene is one where he, along with his friends in their young teens, go to a third-class theater to see some simple shows. People do not applaud; instead whistles, burps, fart sounds and angry tirades are hurled against the poor actors, who eventually have had enough of their audiences' vulgar rudeness, leading them to turn against the public.
During editing, a scene with Alberto Sordi was cut because it was considered too immoral and cruel. In it, he played a rich man sitting at a bar watching some poor kids playing ball. A poor man, blind, sick and lame, comes to cross the street, preventing the rich man from viewing the scene. Alberto Sordi, annoyed, begins shouting insults at the blind man: "Get out of the way, you ugly old man! Get out!".
Fellini repeatedly contrasts Roman life in wartime Fascist Italy with its counterpart in the early 1970s. The wartime scenes emphasize the congregation of neighbors in Rome's public places, such as street restaurants, a variety show, and a bomb shelter. With the exception of hippies and a conversational scene with Fellini bemoaning the loss of Roman life with radical students, the analogous congregations of the 1970s are between automobiles and motorcycles. Fellini makes a comparison between the parade of prostitutes at wartime brothels and a fantasy runway fashion show featuring clerical garb and a papal audience.
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