Federico Fellini has managed to bring together rare qualities - to be a high-class director, an author of cinema that is far from adapting to mass taste and commercialism, and at the same time always awakening love and admiration among sensitive viewers. His cinema tells of a social reality mixed with his imagination and his own world: clowns, priests, corrupt nobility and patriots of all sorts are only part of the characters who cross the whole creative work of a director who has never forgotten his "provincial" past and childhood dreams. Federico Fellini is an Italian film-maker and cinematographer, a representative of neo-realism in Italian cinema. Born January 20, 1920 in Rimini, Italy. He died on 31 October 1993 in Rome, Italy. His wife is Italian actress Giulietta Masina. He began his career as an assistant to another great Italian filmmaker Roberto Rosselini. One of his best films are "Eight and a Half", "La Dolce Vita", "The Road", "Amarcord". In 1948 he starred with Anna Manani in the film "Love". A few months before his death, in March 1993, he received an Oscar for complete creativity. The prize was awarded by Marcello Mastroiani and Sofia Loren.

In 1924, Federico Fellini went to school. He is an affectionate student, while in his spare time he draws and performs with puppets. He often reads the popular "Corriere dei Picoli" magazine, which published translations of American comic books that later influenced his movies. In 1926, Fellini watched his first film, "Madiste All'Inferno", by Guido Brynone, who made a strong impression on him. In 1929, Fellini enrolled in Julius Caesar high school, where he became friend with Luigi Bendzi, a prototype of Tito from the film "Amarcord", who later became a famous lawyer in Rimini. At that time, he became a member of Balila, an organization linked to the National Fascist Party, in which young people should be under 18. In 1933, he and his parents first visited Rome.In 1937, Federico Fellini opened, along with artist Demos Bonini, a portrait studio in Rimini. At that time, his first humorous article was published in Domenique del Corriere. He decides to carry cartoons and sketches, and in 1938 he goes to Florence where he publishes his first cartoon in the weekly magazine "420". In July of that same year, he completed his secondary education after a correctional military training exam. In September 1939, Fellini was enrolled to study law at the University of Rome, but he was not sure whether he had attended the classes at all. He lives in a family boardhouse where he meets another of his friends, artist Rinaldo Geleng. Continuing in need of money, they both paint portraits of customers in restaurants and cafes. For a while, Fellini also worked as a reporter in the daily newspapers "Picolo" and "Popolo di Roma", but quickly left, bored with court reports.

Four months after he published his first article in Marc Aurelio, an influential two-week humorous magazine, Fellini became a member of its editorial board, achieving success with a permanent rubric titled, "Will you listen to what I have to tell you?". This event is defined as "a decisive moment in the life of Fellini." From 1939 to 1942 he has a permanent job in the magazine and actively communicates with writers, writers and scriptwriters, giving him access to show business and cinema. Among his colleagues in the editorial board of the magazine are future director Ettore Scola, writer and theorist of Marxism Cesare Dzazatini and screenwriter Bernardino Dozponi, with whom Fellini will later co-operate frequently in his films. During this period, Fellini also made interviews for the magazine "ChineMagadzino", which also proved useful to him. He interviewed Aldo Fabrizzi, the most popular Italian performer at the time, with whom he established good personal relationships. After the interview, Fabrizzi, who often performs humorous monologues, often begins to order his lyrics to Fellini.

Starting the work in the cinema

In 1940, Federico Fellini's mother, brother and sister, also settled in Rome, and the four of them live together. Fellini and Ruggiero Macari, an associate of Mark Aurelio, began writing sketches for radio and cinema. Before the age of 20, with Fabrici's help, Fellini was featured in screen captions as the author of the sketches in Mario Matoli's "Il pirata sono io!". Fellini is progressing rapidly and taking part in numerous cinematography films in Cinécci, as his professional contacts include writer Vitaliano Brancati and writer Riepo Telini. On the eve of Italy's entry into the war in June 1940, Fellini discovered the books of Franz Kafka, Nicolas Gogol, John Steinbeck and William Faulkner, as well as French films by Marcel Carne, Rue Claire and Julian Deviwie. In 1941, he published "My mio amico Pasqualino", a 74-page booklet, which in 10 chapters describes Pasqualino's absurd adventures, the author's alter ego.

After the bombing of Bologna, Fellini's medical file was destroyed, the army ceased to seek him for mobilization, but with Giulietta Masina he hid in her aunt's apartment until the fall of Benito Mussolini on July 25, 1943. On October 30th that year they both married. On March 22, 1944, Giulietta Masina gave birth to a son, Pierfereriko, but three weeks later the child died of encephalitis. This family tragedy has a lasting emotional impact on both and affects their future work. After the American and British troops captured Rome in June 1944, Federico Fellini and Enrico De Seta opened a studio and experienced the subsequent recession, drawing cartoons for American soldiers. In his store, Fellini meets Roberto Rossellini, who prepares his film Rome, città aperta, and invites him to participate in the sketch and dialogue scenario. Being aware of Fellini's relationship with Aldo Fabrizzi, Rosselini asks him to try to persuade Fabrizzi to play the role of Father Giuseppe Morozini, a real Italian priest executed by the Germans. In 1947, Fellini, along with Sergio Amidei, was nominated for an Oscar for his work on the Rome-open-city screenplay.

While writing about the radio and trying to avoid mobilization, in the autumn of 1942, Fellini met his future wife, Giulietta Masina. She plays the role of Pallina in Fellini's "Chico and Palina" Fellini Radio, and is also known for her performances in radio broadcasting musical comedies, popular entertainment in the years of the war. In November 1942, Fellini was sent to the Libyan occupied by the Italians to prepare the screenplay of "I Cavalieri del Deserto", a film directed by Osvaldo Valenti and Gino Talamo. He is pleased with the appointment, as it allows him once again to postpone his call from the army. Responsible for the urgent changes to the script, he also directed the first scenes of the film. When the British besieged Tripoli, Fellini and his colleagues managed to leave the city with a German military plane. He dedicated his African adventure to a special article in Mark Aurelio. In 1946, Fellini worked as a screenwriter and assistant director of Rosselini's film "Paisà", who left him to shoot Sicilian scenes. In February 1948, he met Marcello Mastroiani, the then-acting theatrical actor, starring in a play, along with Giulietta Masina. Fellini has established a good working relationship with director Alberto Latududa and has co-authored scenarios for his films "Unfortunate" "Senza pietà" and "Il mulino del Po". Again he works with Rosselini in the anthology "L'Amore" - he is co-author of the script of one of the two segments of the film, playing the lead role in partnership with Anna Manani.

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