I Vitelloni

Vitelloni ( The Loafers ) (Original title: I vitelloni ) is a film of Italian neorealism of 1953, created and directed by Federico Fellini.

The film is autobiographical for the most part and is based on Fellini's experiences as a young man in his hometown of Rimini. Accordingly, the film is set in a small town on the Adriatic coast. The story focuses on the lives of five young men, the womanizer Fausto, the intellectuals Leopoldo, the child's Alberto, the adult Moraldo and are backed by Riccardo.

Action

At the beginning, the viewer is witness to a beauty contest, which takes place on the beach of the small town. The winner Sandra faints, and it turns out that she is pregnant. The child's father is Fausto, a womanizer; he wants to tear to Milan, but under the pressure of his father and brother of Sandra, he marries her. After the wedding and subsequent honeymoon Fausto is forced by his father- a job more or less - he is a salesman in a antique and Devotionaliengeschäft. With Sandra in the cinema, he Bandelt with the lady on his other side, and even the wife of his Padrone is in front of him not sure after he has already made it clear compliments the carnival.

This, however, he pulls out and is terminated. Moraldo makes it clear that a salary he would have granted; Fausto persuaded Moraldo with him to steal an angel figure from the business - as a compensation for the withholding of compensation. In vain they try the stolen first a suspicious nun, then to turn a suspicious monk. You will be caught, but the scandal may just again be swept under the carpet because Fausto claiming he had not readjusted the wife of his padrone, but this him.

The situation is, however unbearable for Sandra, and she leaves Fausto together with the common child. They are looking for Fausto and his friends and find them only after long hours with little morality Dino at Fausto's father. This does not hesitate, but be restrained from his belt and beat up his son so. Fausto and Sandra have found each other again - but the Offsprecher promises no big change. Only Moraldo place - just like Federico Fellini himself - the power to leave the petty-bourgeois milieu and to open the train to Rome.

The final scene shows the boy had befriended the Moraldo how he happily balancing on a rail after Moraldo has told him goodbye, he did not know whether it would be better elsewhere, but in any case it was different.

Reviews

" The embossed personal memories of Fellini's small town satire is a masterful study of subtle gags that enriched the Italian neo-realism to a new dimension. The human life and the idle life of the "big calves " Vitelloni is poetic, melancholic, tragic-comic, sometimes satirical, but always loving irony and unmasked. "

Awards

  • Silver Lion at the International Film Festival in Venice in 1953.
  • Nastro d' Argento the SNGCI ( Association of Italian Film Journalists ) for directing, producing and best supporting actor (Alberto Sordi ) 1954.
  • Étoile de Cristal in the categories of Best Foreign Film ( Prix International ), Best Actor ( Franco Fabrizi ) and Best Actress (Leonora Ruffo )
  • Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay in 1958
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