Dolce vita, La (1960)

Regisseur:

Federico Fellini

Drehbuchautoren:

Federico Fellini (story) &
Ennio Flaiano (story) ...

Premierendatum:

19. April 1961 (USA)

Genre:

Drama

Werbezeile:

The Sweet Life

Plot:

Journalist and man-about-town Marcello struggles to find his place in the world, torn between the allure...

Plot Keywords:

Surreal | Dachshund | Surrealism | Philosophy | Helicopter

Filmpreise:

Won Oscar. Another 7 wins & 7 nominations

Nutzerkommentare:

Bitterness Of The Sweet Life

Besetzung

Marcello Mastroianni	...	Marcello Rubini
Anita Ekberg	...	Sylvia
Anouk Aimée	...	Maddalena (as Anouk Aimee)
Yvonne Furneaux	...	Emma
Magali Noël	...	Fanny (as Magali Noel)
Alain Cuny	...	Steiner
Annibale Ninchi	...	Marcello's father
Walter Santesso	...	Paparazzo
Valeria Ciangottini	...	Paola
Riccardo Garrone	...	Riccardo
Ida Galli	...	Debuttante of the Year
Audrey McDonald	...	Jane (as Audey McDonald)
Polidor	...	Clown
Alain Dijon	...	Frankie Stout
Enzo Cerusico	...	Newspaper photographer

Alternativ:

Dolce vita, La (France)
Douceur de vivre, La (France) (alternative title)
The Sweet Life (UK)
Süße Leben, Das (Bundesrepublik Deutschland) [de]

Länge:

174 Min | Germany:177 Min (premiere) | Portugal:165 Min (re-release) | USA:180 Min (premiere)

Produktionsland:

Italy | France

Sprache:

Italienisch | Englisch | Französisch | Deutsch

Farbe:

Schwarzweiss

Seitenverhältnis:

2.35 : 1

Tonverfahren:

Mono (Western Electric)

Altersfreigabe:

South Korea:15 | Italy:VM14 | Hungary:18 | Argentina:16 | Australia:M (DVD rating) | Australia:PG (original rating) | Chile:18 | Finland:K-16 | Norway:16 | Singapore:M18 | Sweden:15 | UK:15 | USA:Not Rated | West Germany:12 (video rating)

Drehorte:

Bassano Romano, Viterbo, Lazio, Italy

Firma:

Riama Film

Dies und das:

Producer Dino De Laurentiis left the project when director Federico Fellini refused to cast Paul Newman in the lead.

Pannen:

Filmfehler: At the top of St. Peter's dome the wind blows Sylvia's hat off. The wire on her hat used to achieve this effect is clearly visible trailing off to the right during the scene.

Dialogzitate:

Steiner: Don't be like me. Salvation doesn't lie within four walls. I'm too serious to be a dilettante and too much a dabbler to be a professional. Even the most miserable life is better than a sheltered existence in an organized society where everything is calculated and perfected.

Bezüge zu anderen Titeln:

Verweis/Anspielung/Erwähnung in Elsa y Fred (2005)

Soundtrack:

Patricia

Bitterness Of The Sweet Life

LA DOLCE VITA presents a series of incidents in the life of Roman tabloid reporter Marcello Rubini (Marcello Mastroianni)--and although each incident is very different in content they create a portrait of an intelligent but superficial man who is gradually consumed by "the sweet life" of wealth, celebrity, and self-indulgence he reports on and which he has come to crave.

Although the film seems to be making a negative statement about self-indulgence that leads to self-loathing, Fellini also gives the viewer plenty of room to act as interpreter, and he cleverly plays one theme against its antithesis throughout the film. (The suffocation of monogamy vs. the meaninglessness of promiscuity and sincere religious belief vs. manipulative hypocrisy are but two of the most obvious juxtapositions.) But Fellini's most remarkable effect here is his ability to keep us interested in the largely unsympathetic characters LA DOLCE VITA presents: a few are naive to the point of stupidity; most are vapid; the majority (including the leads) are unspeakably shallow--and yet they still hold our interest over the course of this three hour film.

The cast is superior, with Marcello Mastroianni's personal charm particularly powerful. As usual with Fellini, there is a lot to look at on the screen: although he hasn't dropped into the wild surrealism for which he was sometimes known, there are quite a few surrealistic flourishes and visual ironies aplenty--the latter most often supplied by the hordes of photographers that scuttle after the leading characters much like cockroaches in search of crumbs. For many years available to the home market in pan-and-scan only, the film is now in a letterbox release that makes it all the more effective. Strongly recommended.

Gary F. Taylor, aka GFT, Amazon Reviewer