Federico Fellini

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Early life and influences
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Giulietta Masina, Anthony Quinn, and Aldo Silvani in costume stand together in a circus setting in a black-and-white scene from the film La Strada (1954).

Giulietta Masina as Cabiria stands outside a car under a neon sign reading night club in a nighttime scene from the 1957 film The Nights of Cabiria.

Marcello Mastroianni and Anita Ekberg in La dolce vita

Marcello Mastroianni and Anita Ekberg in formal attire stand together in the water of the Trevi Fountain in a famous scene from La Dolce Vita, directed by Federico Fellini.

Scene from the film Amarcord directed by Federico Fellini, showing people in vintage bathing costumes on boats, with a woman in a white sailor outfit waving.

Federico Fellini stands holding a camera while Giulietta Masina, in character with drawn-on facial features, sits in the foreground holding an umbrella on the set of La Strada.

Federico Fellini lies on the floor aiming a camera at Giulietta Masina, who stands wrapped in a cloak and hat on the set of La Strada, with a ladder in the background.

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Oct. 27, 2026 •History

Federico Fellini (born January 20, 1920, Rimini, Italy—died October 31, 1993, Rome) was an Italian film director who was one of the most celebrated and singular filmmakers of the period after World War II. Influenced early in his career by the Neorealist movement, he developed his own distinctive methods that superimposed dreamlike or hallucinatory imagery upon ordinary situations. He added vastly to the vocabulary of the cinema and pioneered a personal style of filmmaking now...

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