(ANSA) - ROME, MAY 24 - FELLINOPOLIS by Silvia Giulietti is a documentary 'homage' to the master of La dolce vita who, after the Rome Festival, arrives in the hall from 10 June with Officine Ubu.
A demonstration that the work of the Rimini director, five times Oscar winner, is still a mine full of generous galleries full of treasures. On stage this time unpublished backstage images and interviews with his closest collaborators (LinaWertmüller, Nicola Piovani and Dante Ferretti, MaurizioMillenotti, Ferruccio Castronuovo and Norma Giacchero) to enter, as in a journey into the past, in the backstage of films such as LA CITTÀ DELLE DONNE, LA NAVE VA and GINGER AND FRED, a real privilege that Ferruccio Castronuovo had at the time when Fellini, generally very jealous of everything, allowed him to shoot freely on these sets. In short, Castronuovo was a real mine, which also attended the sets of Visconti and Montaldo, of which the director bought the rights with only one regret: "The whole backstage of Casanova has disappeared, which seems to be extraordinary. The material - says Silvia Giulietti - went to the American producer every night and it is said that it then disappeared in a fire at Paramount, but I don't believe it ".
What do you see in FELLINOPOLIS? In the meantime, how the master from Rimini behaved on the bridge of a set: overbearing, ironic, amused and always creative, the director in this documentary offers many unpublished aspects of himself. As when he says seriously, by way of reproach, to Mastroianni on the set of GINGER AND FRED: "The first thing for an actor is to know how to dance, to act is to dance". Or when he stresses during an interview: "It's true, I need harmony with collaborators as a sixth to go on a picnic, a trip together". (HANDLE).