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For Intervista, produced by Ibrahim Moussa and RAI Television, Fellini intercut memories of the first time he visited Cinecittà in 1939 with present-day footage of himself at work on a screen adaptation of Franz Kafka ’ s Amerika.

A meditation on the nature of memory and film production, it won the special 40th Anniversary Prize at Cannes and the 15th Moscow Film Festival Grand Prize.

In Brussels later that year, a panel of thirty professionals from eighteen European countries named Fellini the world ’ s best director and 8½ the best European film of all time.