8 1/2 (1963)
- Starring:
- Marcello Mastroianni, Claudia Cardinale, (more)
- Director(s):
- Federico Fellini
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Fresh off of the international success of La Dolce Vita, master director Federico Fellini moved into the realm of self-reflexive autobiography with what is widely believed to be his finest and most personal work. Marcello Mastroianni delivers a brilliant performance as Fellini's alter ego Guido Anselmi, a film director overwhelmed by the large-scale production he has undertaken. He finds himself harangued by producers, his wife, and his mistress while he struggles to find the inspiration to finish his film. The stress plunges Guido into an interior world where fantasy and memory impinge on reality. Fellini jumbles narrative logic by freely cutting from flashbacks to dream sequences to the present until it becomes impossible to pry them apart, creating both a psychological portrait of Guido's interior world and the surrealistic, circus-like exterior world that came to be known as "Felliniesque." 8 1/2 won an Academy Award for Best Foreign-Language Film, as well as the grand prize at the Moscow Film Festival, and was one of the most influential and commercially successful European art movies of the 1960s, inspiring such later films as Bob Fosse's All That Jazz (1979), Woody Allen's Stardust Memories (1980), and even Lucio Fulci's Italian splatter film Un Gatto nel Cervello (1990). ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide
- Theatrical Feature Running Time:
- 138 mins
Complete Cast:
- Marcello Mastroianni - Guido Anselmi
- Anouk Aimée - Luisa Anselmi
- Rossella Falk - Rossella
- Barbara Steele - Gloria Morin
- Mino Doro - Claudia's agent
- Eugene Walter - The Journalist
- Annie Gorassini - Producer's Girl Friend
- Guido Alberti - The Producer
- Cesarino Miceli Picardi - Production Inspector
- Mark Herron - Luisa's Admirer
- Matilda Calnan - Older Journalist
- Georgia Simmons - Anselmi's grandmother
- Annibale Ninchi - Anselmi's Father
- Tito Massini - The Cardinal
- Dina de Santis - Two Young Girls in Bed
- Polidor - Clown in the Parade
- Jean Rougeul - Writer
- Claudia Cardinale - Claudia
- Sandra Milo - Carla
- Mario Pisu - Mezzabotta
- Neil Robinson - Agent for French actor
- Madeleine Le Beau - French Actress
- Gilda Dahlberg - Journalist's Wife
- Ian Dallas - Mindreader
- Mario Conocchia - Producer
- John Stacy - Accountant
- Rosellin Como - Friend
- Eddra Gale - La Saraghina
- Edy Vessel - Model
- Giuditta Rissone - Anselmi's Mother
- Olimpia Cavalli - Miss Olympia
- Caterina Boratto - Fashionable Woman
- Maria Antonietta Beluzzi - Screen-Test Candidate for La Saraghina
- Director(s):
- Federico Fellini
- Writer(s):
- Brunello Rondi, Tullio Pinelli, Federico Fellini
- Producer(s):
- Angelo Rizzoli
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- 1963 - 8 1/2 - Moscow International Film Festival - Grand Prize
- 1963 - 8 1/2 - National Board of Review - Best Foreign Film
- 1963 - 8 1/2 - New York Film Critics Circle - Best Foreign Film
