Otto e mezzo
8½ (1963)
Synopsis
“Marcello Mastroianni plays Guido Anselmi, a director whose new project is collapsing around him, along with his life. One of the greatest films about film ever made, Federico Fellini’s 8½ (Otto e mezzo) turns one man’s artistic crisis into a grand epic of the cinema. An early working title for 8½ was The Beautiful Confusion, and Fellini’s masterpiece is exactly that: a shimmering dream, a circus, and a magic act.”
Source: The Criterion Collection
Genre
Comedy, Fantasy, Melodrama, Surrealist, Show business
Format / Medium
Black and white film
Duration
114 min
Production
Angelo Rizzoli
Story
Federico Fellini, Ennio Flaiano based on an idea by Federico Fellini
Screenplay
Federico Fellini, Brunello Rondi , Tullio Pinelli and Ennio Flaiano
Main Cast
Anouk Aimée, Marcello Mastroianni, Sandra Milo , Claudia Cardinale, Rossela Falk, Madeleine LeBeau and Caterina Boratto
Music
Nino Rota
Image Credits
The Fellini Foundation for the Cinema Collection