I Vitelloni ( Les Inutiles ) ( Spivs )

I Vitelloni (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Les Inutiles
Alternate Title: Spivs
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Oscar Academy Awards
Venice Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
Italian ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/Region 2.4 )

Running Time:
109 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1953 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
Italy ( Italy, Greece )

Directed By:
Federico Fellini

Written By:
Federico Fellini

Actors:
Franco Interlenghi ..... Moraldo Rubini
Alberto Sordi ..... Alberto
Franco Fabrizi ..... Fausto Moretti
Leopoldo Trieste ..... Leopoldo Vannucci
Riccardo Fellini ..... Riccardo
Leonora Ruffo ..... Sandra Rubini (as Eleonora Ruffo)
Jean Brochard ..... Il signore Francesco Moretti, padre di Fausto
Claude Farell ..... Olga, sorella di Alberto
Carlo Romano ..... Il signore Michele Curti
Enrico Viarisio ..... Il signore Rubini, padre di Moraldo e Sandra
Paola Borboni ..... La signora Rubini, madre di Moraldo e Sandra
Lída Baarová ..... La signora Giulia Curti (as Lida Baarowa)
Arlette Sauvage ..... La sconosciuta del cinema
Vira Silenti ..... Gisella, la 'cinesina'
Maja Nipora ..... Caterina, la soubrette

Synopsis:

A sensitive character study of five young men trapped in a small town on the Adriatic. Their discontentment and restlessness lead them into a variety of activities, not all of them admirable.

Italian maestro Federico Fellini's first international success is a nakedly autobiographical film that bears many of the formal and thematic concerns that recur throughout his work. Set in the director's hometown of Rimini, I Vitelloni follows the lives of five young vitelloni, or layabouts, who while away their listless days in their small seaside village. Fausto (Franco Fabrizi), the leader of the pack, marries his sweetheart, but finds himself constantly distracted by other women. Meanwhile, would-be playwright Leopoldo (Leopoldo Trieste) continues work on his dreary plays, dreaming of staging them one day. Clownish Alberto (Alberto Sordi) still lives at home with his mother and sister, Olga (Claude Farell), while boasting of preserving the family honor by watching over her. While the movie seems to pay little attention to Riccardo (Riccardo Fellini) and Moraldo (Franco Interlenghi), the latter eventually emerges as its key character, plainly serving as Fellini's alter ego. Stuck in adolescence, the five friends stumble into various misadventures, as they seek to spice up their uneventful provincial lives. Ultimately, one of them breaks free from their self-imposed paralysis and moves on, leading to one of the most poignant farewell sequences in film history. A hit in Italy upon its release, I Vitelloni secured Fellini's reputation as an up-and-coming talent, while also introducing its title into Italian vernacular.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 23 March, 2006.