Intervista

Intervista

Interview

A Japanese film crew interviews Federico Fellini at the start of a night shoot, and the balance of the film becomes a fantasy restaging of the director’s cinematic memories. His most trusted associates play themselves doing the usual work of finding suitable locations and rounding up the director’s expected cast of unusual faces. An actor (Sergio Rubini) is the young Fellini coming to Cinecittá for the first time to interview a libidinous movie star (Paola Liguori). He is enchanted by every woman he sees – the star, a young hopeful (Antonella Ponziani), a studio staffer (Nadia Ottaviani) collecting chicory on the studio’s open fields. A crazy director clashes with a tight-pursed producer over cardboard elephants on the set of a costume epic. Fellini interrupts his preparations to take actor Marcello Mastroianni (himself) to visit his old co-star Anita Ekberg (herself); they watch scenes from La dolce vita together. Finally, rain interrupts the nighttime shooting of an attack of wild Indians … carrying weapons that look like old Television aerials.

Source: Turner Classic Movies (TCM)