La Dolce Vita 1960

type: Movie

language: English

duration: 174 min

genre: comedy-drama

director: Federico Fellini

Score: 7 / 10

La Dolce Vita (; Italian for "the sweet life" or "the good life") is a 1960 comedy-drama film directed and co-written by Federico Fellini. The film follows Marcello Rubini (Marcello Mastroianni), a journalist writing for gossip magazines, over seven days and nights on his journey through the "sweet life" of Rome in a fruitless search for love and happiness. The screenplay, co-written by Fellini and three other screenwriters, can be divided into a prologue, seven major episodes interrupted by an intermezzo, and an epilogue, according to the most common interpretation.

Plot

By the most common interpretation of the storyline, the film can be divided into a prologue, seven major episodes interrupted by an intermezzo, and an epilogue (see also Structure, below). If the evenings of each episode were joined with the morning of the respective preceding episode together as a day, they would form seven consecutive days, which may not necessarily be the case.

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Cast

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author	Brunello Rondi Ennio Flaiano Federico Fellini Pier Paolo Pasolini Tullio Pinelli
award	Academy Award for Best Costume Design, Black-and-White Palme d'Or
contentLocation	Rome
director	Federico Fellini
editor	Leo Catozzo
events	Culture of Rome decadence disillusion existential crisis mass media multicultural society nightlife sexual desire
genre	comedy-drama
keywords	american art apartment building bach bassano di sutri baths of caracalla beach house break in build catholic church ciampino airport connect deserted road drown echo chamber emergency room epilogue even film star follow fregene gather heart attack homosexual isolated kill leviathan long madonna magic spell married mary morning of mourn news reporter paint party patricia perez prado phone call press conference prologue return home rome ciampino airport saint peter saint peter\'s square sanskrit shelter sick child sports car st. peter\'s square striptease sunbathe trampled to death via veneto virgin mary wait way of life young woman
musicBy	Nino Rota
nomination	Academy Award for Best Art Direction, Black and White Academy Award for Best Costume Design, Black-and-White Academy Award for Best Director Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay
producer	Angelo Rizzoli Giuseppe Amato
publisher	Cineriz Pathé Consortium Cinéma
recordedAt	Rome Trevi Fountain