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Italia 2 panel previously mounted restored in situ movie poster for the classic 1960 Italian film, La Dolce Vita, directed by the acclaimed Federico Fellini. The film is a satirical comedy-drama that explores the shallow, hedonistic lives of Rome's elite through the eyes of a tabloid journalist named Marcello Rubini.
Key Information
Feature
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Title La Dolce Vita (Italian for "The Sweet Life" or "The Good Life")
Director Federico Fellini
Starring Marcello Mastroianni, Anita Ekberg, Anouk Aimée, Yvonne Furneaux, Alain Cuny, Annibale Ninchi, Magali Noël, Lex Barker, Jacques Sernas, and Nadia Gray
Release Year 1960 (Italy)
Plot A journalist drifts through seven days and nights in Rome, encountering a cast of characters in a fruitless search for love and happiness amidst a world of excess and moral decline.
Awards Winner of the Palme d'Or at the 1960 Cannes Film Festival and an Academy Award for Best Costume Design.
Cultural Impact The film popularized the term "paparazzi" (named after the character Paparazzo, a news photographer) and includes the iconic scene of Anita Ekberg wading in the Trevi Fountain. |
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