Intervista Synopsis

Cinecitta, the huge movie studio outside Rome, is 50 years old, and as Fellini begins production on his latest film, a Japanese TV crew interviews him about the other films he has made their over the years. A young actor portrays Fellini arriving at Cinecitta the first time by trolley to interview a star. Marcello Mastroianni dressed as Mandrake the Magician floats by a window, and Fellini followed by TV crew takes him to Anita Ekberg's villa where the Trevi fountain scene from La Dolce Vita (1960) is shown on a sheet that appears and disappears as if by magic. —Dale O'Connor

Cinecitta, the huge movie studio outside Rome, is 50 years old, and as Fellini begins production on his latest film, a Japanese TV crew interviews him about the other films he has made their over the years. A young actor portrays Fellini arriving at Cinecitta the first time by trolley to interview a star. Marcello Mastroianni dressed as Mandrake the Magician floats by a window, and Fellini followed by TV crew takes him to Anita Ekberg's villa where the Trevi fountain scene from La Dolce Vita (1960) is shown on a sheet that appears and disappears as if by magic. —Dale O'Connor

December 14, 2020 at 03:01 AM