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In June 1939, Federico Fellini met Aldo Fabrizi in the Corso Cinema after a Variety show in which the great Roman actor was the star. Fellini wanted to interview him for a piece about variety entertainers to be published in CineMagazzino. They took an immediate liking to one other. Fabrizi asked the youth from Rimini to collaborate with him on drafting variety and movie scripts. It looked like it was going to be a durable friendship but Fellini detected some incomprehension when he collaborated with Sergio Amidei on the screenplay of Roberto Rossellini’s Rome, Open City. Fabrizi distanced himself from Fellini. This documentary retraces the friendship between these two great artists, with the reminiscences of Fabrizi’s son and granddaughter Massimo Fabrizi and Cielo Pessione, as well as Carlo Delle Piane, Tullio Kezich and Mario Verdone. The fluctuations in their friendship form a precious testimony to the spirit of Italian cinema during the neorealist years.

Italy - 2005 - 59 mn - Betacam SP - Colour and B&W

Director Luca Verdone Camera Maurizio Manduzio Editing Matteo Ridolfi

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