DIRECTOR BIOGRAPHY - Federico Fellini

Federico Fellini is the most famous Italian director and as such he cannot be classified in a well-defined genre, even if the first part of his production is influenced by neorealism. Fellini is a visionary poet, he makes dreamlike films that are difficult to categorize and makes autobiography his most marked stylistic feature. Escape to Rome Born in Rimini in a lower-middle-class family, he soon shows a desire to escape to the capital, which is well exposed in I Vitelloni (1953), a truthful portrait of provincial life through the days of five layabouts who invent everyday life. Winter in Rimini is only boredom and regret for lost time, between friends who get married, escapades, frustrated aspirations, broken dreams. Fellini moves to Rome, works as a humorous illustrator in magazines such as "Marc'Aurelio", begins to work on the radio and as a screenwriter. In 1943 he married Giulietta Masina , whom he had met on the radio, and sold comic drawings to make a living, until Roberto Rossellini called him to collaborate on Rome, Open City . The most important director of neorealism established a fruitful relationship with the young Fellini, and wanted him alongside him for Paisà , L'amore (he wrote the episode Il miracolo ) and Francesco giullare di Dio . Fellini also wrote screenplays for other directors such as Lattuada , Germi and Comencini , but it was only in 1950 that he directed his first film in collaboration with Alberto Lattuada . It was Luci del varietà , a story of the illusions and disappointments of a comedian in a small vaudeville company. Fellini's first film with independent directing responsibility was Lo sceicco bianco (1952), starring a very young Alberto Sordi who played a mean star of photo stories