Wednesday 7 October, 21:00 - Fellini and alter ego by Graziano Marraffa

FELLINI AND ALTER EGO

Idea and editing by Graziano Marraffa

Cast: Federico Fellini, Anouk Aimée, Richard Basehart, Gabriella Giorgelli, Peter Gonzales, Franco Interlenghi, Freddie Jones, Giulietta Masina, Marcello Mastroianni, Sandra Milo, Annibale Ninchi, Magali Noel, Mario Pisu, Anna Prucnal, Sergio Rubini, Alberto Sordi, Bruno Zanin

Country: Italy

Year: 2020

Production and Distribution: Archivio Storico del Cinema Italiano, AIC, Libera Università del Cinema

Running time: 77 minuti

Federico Fellini's Cinema has often been defined par excellence as "autobiographical", using this simplistic and at the same time reductive adjective : in reality, the Author has often needed to express himself as a Man and an Artist by seeking an alter ego in some of his interpreters to create new metanarrative characters. The first inspirer in this sense was his great friend and assistant director Moraldo Rossi, brother of the actress Cosetta Greco, who came to Rome from Mestre.
From their comparison, the "Moraldo" of "I VITELLONI" (1953), played by Franco Interlenghi, which should have been followed up in a project entitled "MORALDO IN CITTA '" (partially transformed into “LA DOLCE VITA”, 1959), and “The Crazy” from “LA STRADA” (1954) that Fellini wanted to have Moraldo Rossi himself interpret before entrusting it to Richard Basehart, according to the claims of producer Dino De Laurentiis. In "AGENZIA MATRIMONIALE" (ep. of "L’AMORE IN CITTA '", 1953), Antonio Cifariello plays a young journalist of the same name, but the off-screen narrator clearly highlights the choice of the Author; Fellini will repeat the expedient in "ROMA" (1971) with Peter Gonzales, in "E LA NAVE VA" (1983) with Freddie Jones in the role of Orlando and in "INTERVIEW" (1986) with Sergio Rubini.Marcello Mastroianni will incarnate him more and more shamelessly, coming to resemble him in his facial features and clothing, transforming himself into Marcello Rubini in "LA DOLCE VITA" (1959), Guido Anselmi in "8 ½" (1962), Snaporaz in "LA CITTA ' DELLE DONNE "(1979), Pippo Botticella in" GINGER E FRED "(1985).
More subdued, but no less recognizable as the protagonist's husband, will be the figure of Mario Pisu alias Giorgio in “GIULIETTA DEGLI SPIRITI” (1965).
In "I CLOWN" (1970) the identification with the child attracted by the circus company is derived from a direct experience in the life of his younger brother Riccardo Fellini, while in "AMARCORD" (1973) Bruno Zanin evokes in "Titta Biondi" childhood friend Titta Benzi. But, in this film anthology created in 2020 on the occasion of the centenary of the Maestro's birth, the game of mirrors also includes the Authors of the Cinematography who represent further alter egos of his art: Carlo Carlini, Pasqualino De Santis, Tonino Delli Colli, Dario Di Palma, Gianni Di Venanzo, Ennio Guarnieri, Otello Martelli, Giuseppe Rotunno, Luciano Trasatti.