The scandal provoked by Turkish dancer Haish Nana ’ s improvised striptease at a nightclub captured Fellini ’ s imagination: he decided to end his latest script-in-progress, Moraldo in the City, with an all-night “ orgy ” at a seaside villa.

* 1992: Fellini: I'm a Born Liar-Federico Fellini's last filmed interviews conducted in 1992 for a 2002 feature documentary

In 2008 he released his autobiography called I Peed on Fellini, a reference to a drunken attempt to shake Federico Fellini's hand while using a urinal.

During the autumn, Fellini researched and developed a treatment based on a film adaptation of Mario Tobino ’ s novel, The Free Women of Magliano.

After first meeting Castaneda in Rome in October 1984, Fellini drafted a treatment with Pinelli titled Viaggio a Tulun.

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La Dolce Vita (; Italian for " the sweet life " or " the good life ") is a 1960 comedy-drama film written and directed by the critically acclaimed director Federico Fellini.

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Her first job was Terziglio, a radio serial written by Fellini.

He played the leading role of " Jerry " in the film Senza pietà ( Without Pity ), written by Federico Fellini.

In 1937, Fellini opened Febo, a portrait shop in Rimini with the painter Demos Bonini.

Described as “ the determining moment in Fellini ’ s life ”, he enjoyed steady employment between 1939 and 1942, interacting with writers, gagmen, and scriptwriters that eventually led to opportunities in show business and cinema.

Not yet twenty and with Fabrizi ’ s help, Fellini obtained his first screen credit as a comedy writer on Mario Mattoli ’ s Il pirata sono io ( The Pirate's Dream ).

He became involved with Italian Neorealism when Roberto Rossellini, at work on Stories of Yesteryear ( later Rome, Open City ), met Fellini in his shop proposing he contribute gags and dialogue for the script.

Establishing a close working relationship with Alberto Lattuada, Fellini co-wrote the director ’ s Senza pietà ( Without Pity ) and Il mulino del Po ( The Mill on the Po ).

Fellini also worked with Rossellini on the anthology film L ' Amore ( 1948 ), co-writing the screenplay and in one segment titled, " The Miracle ", acting opposite Anna Magnani.

In 1950 Fellini co-produced and co-directed with Alberto Lattuada Variety Lights ( Luci del varietà ), his first feature film.

The production company went bankrupt, leaving both Fellini and Lattuada with debts to pay for over a decade.

After travelling to Paris for a script conference with Rossellini on Europa ' 51, Fellini began production on The White Sheik in September 1951, his first solo-directed feature.

Fellini directed La strada based on a script completed in 1952 with Pinelli and Flaiano.

Changing the title of the screenplay to La Dolce Vita, Fellini soon clashed with his producer on casting: the director insisted on the relatively unknown Mastroianni while De Laurentiis wanted Paul Newman as a hedge on his investment.

Condemned as a “ public sinner ” for La Dolce Vita, Fellini responded with The Temptations of Doctor Antonio, a segment in the omnibus Boccaccio ' 70.

Infused with the surrealistic satire that characterized the young Fellini ’ s work at Marc ’ Aurelio, the film ridiculed a crusader against vice who goes insane trying to censor a billboard of Anita Ekberg espousing the virtues of milk.

Giving the order to start production in spring 1962, Fellini signed deals with his producer Rizzoli, fixed dates, had sets constructed, cast Mastroianni, Anouk Aimée, and Sandra Milo in lead roles, and did screen tests at the Scalera Studios in Rome.

In Hollywood for the ceremony, Fellini toured Disneyland with Walt Disney the day after.

In 1964, Fellini experimented with LSD 25 under the supervision of Emilio Servadio, his psychoanalyst during production of La strada.

When Castaneda inexplicably disappeared and the project fell through, Fellini ’ s mystico-shamanic adventures were scripted with Pinelli and serialized in Corriere della Sera in May 1986.

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.

In July 1991 and April 1992, Fellini worked in close collaboration with Canadian filmmaker Damian Pettigrew to establish " the longest and most detailed conversations ever recorded on film ".

( 1998 ), a Spanish novel by Puerto Rican writer Giannina Braschi, features a dream sequence with Fellini that was inspired by 8½.

Fellini ’ s work is referenced on the albums Fellini Days ( 2001 ) by Fish and Funplex ( 2008 ) by the B-52's with the song Juliet of the Spirits, and in the opening traffic jam of the music video Everybody Hurts by R. E. M.

Producer Carlo Ponti commissioned Fellini and Tullio Pinelli to write the script but Antonioni rejected the story they developed.

** Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists Silver Ribbons for Best Cinematography in B & W ( Gianni Di Venanzo ), Best Director ( Federico Fellini ), Best Original Story ( Fellini and Flaiano ), Best Producer ( Angelo Rizzoli ), Best Score ( Nino Rota ), Best Screenplay ( Fellini, Pinelli, Flaiano, Rondi ), and Best Supporting Actress ( Sandra Milo )

" Abandoning traditional plot and conventional " character development ," Fellini and co-screenwriters Ennio Flaiano and Tullio Pinelli, forged a cinematic narrative that rejected continuity, unnecessary explanations, and narrative logic in favour of seven non-linear encounters between Marcello, a kind of Dantesque Pilgrim, and an underworld of 120 different characters.

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Among the major artistic films of this era were La città delle donne, E la nave va, Ginger and Fred by Fellini, L ' albero degli zoccoli by Ermanno Olmi ( winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival ), La notte di San Lorenzo by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, Antonioni's Identificazione di una donna, and Bianca and La messa è finita by Nanni Moretti.

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Federico Fellini (; January 20, 1920 – October 31, 1993 ) was an Italian film director and scriptwriter.

Fellini was born on January 20, 1920 to middle-class parents in Rimini, then a small town on the Adriatic Sea.

His father, Urbano Fellini ( 1894 – 1956 ), born to a family of Romagnol peasants and small landholders from Gambettola, moved to Rome in 1915 as a baker apprenticed to the Pantanella pasta factory.

Fellini had two siblings: Riccardo ( 1921 – 1991 ), a documentary director for RAI Television, and Maria Maddalena ( m. Fabbri ; 1929 – 2002 ).

In 1924, Fellini started primary school in an institute run by the nuns of San Vincenzo in Rimini, attending the Carlo Tonni public school two years later.

In Mussolini ’ s Italy, Fellini and Riccardo became members of the Avanguardista, the compulsory Fascist youth group for males.

Although Fellini adapted key events from his childhood and adolescence in films such as I Vitelloni ( 1953 ), 8½ ( 1963 ), and Amarcord ( 1973 ), he insisted that such autobiographical memories were inventions: " It is not memory that dominates my films.

Deciding on a career as a caricaturist and gag writer, Fellini travelled to Florence in 1938 where he published his first cartoon in the weekly 420.

Fellini eventually found work as a cub reporter on the dailies Il Piccolo and Il Popolo di Roma but quit after a short stint, bored by the local court news assignments.

Among his collaborators on the magazine ’ s editorial board were the future director Ettore Scola, Marxist theorist and scriptwriter Cesare Zavattini, and Bernardino Zapponi, a future Fellini screenwriter.

Fellini and Ruggero Maccari, also on the staff of Marc ’ Aurelio, began writing radio sketches and gags for films.

Writing for radio while attempting to avoid the draft, Fellini met his future wife Giulietta Masina in a studio office at the Italian public radio broadcaster EIAR in autumn 1942.

In November 1942, Fellini was sent to Libya, occupied by Fascist Italy, to work on the screenplay of I cavalieri del deserto ( Knights of the Desert, 1942 ), directed by Osvaldo Valenti and Gino Talamo.

The apolitical Fellini was finally freed of the draft when an Allied air raid over Bologna destroyed his medical records.

Fellini and Giulietta hid in her aunt ’ s apartment until Mussolini's fall on July 25, 1943.

After the Allied liberation of Rome on June 4, 1944, Fellini and Enrico De Seta opened the Funny Face Shop where they survived the postwar recession drawing caricatures of American soldiers.