FELLINI OF THE SPIRITS
To celebrate the centennial of the Maestro’s birth on January 20, 1920, the documentary will explore,
for the first time, “the hidden world” of Federico Fellini.
It will draw on plenty of unseen materials from the archives of pubcaster Rai and state film entity Istituto
Luce, in addition to film clips, to reconstruct and depict Fellini’s rapport with the spiritual and the supernatural.
Besides Chazelle and Friedkin, the doc also features interviews with Terry Gilliam and Fellini’s collaborators
Fiammetta Profili and Filippo Ascione, with his close friend journalist Sergio Zavoli and Italian scholars Andrea Minuz and Aldo Tassone, among others.
DIRECTED BY: Anselma Dell’Olio (David di Donatello for La lucida follia di Marco Ferreri)
SPECIAL GUEST: Terry Gilliam, Fiammetta Profili, Filippo Ascione, Sergio Zavoli, Andrea Minuz, Aldo Tassone
PRODUCED BY: Mad Entertainment and Rai Cinema in coproduction with Walking the Dog, Arte, Rai Com
LANGUAGES: Italian
RUNNING TIME: 90 MIN
RELEASE DATE: sept 2020
