I clowns

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I clowns
Directed byFederico Fellini
Written byStory and Screenplay:
Federico Fellini
Bernardino Zapponi
Produced byElio Scardamaglia
StarringFederico Fellini
CinematographyDario Di Palma
Edited byRuggero Mastroianni
Music byNino Rota
Release date
December 25, 1970
Running time
92 minutes
LanguageItalian

I clowns (also known as The Clowns) is a 1970 mockumentary film by Federico Fellini about the human fascination with clowns and circuses.[1]

Plot summary

Cast

Main

  • Riccardo Billi as himself – Italian Clown (credited as Billi)
  • Federico Fellini as himself
  • Gigi Reder as himself – Italian Clown (credited as Reder)
  • Tino Scotti as himself – Italian Clown (credited as Scotti)
  • Valentini as himself – Italian Clown
  • Fanfulla as himself – Italian Clown
  • Merli as himself – Italian Clown
  • Carlo Rizzo as himself – Italian Clown (credited as Rizzo)
  • Colombaioni as Themselves – Italian Clowns (credited as I 4 Colombaioni)
  • Pistoni as himself – Italian Clown
  • Martana as Themselves – Italian Clowns (credited as I Martana)
  • Giacomo Furia as himself – Italian Clown (credited as Furia)
  • Alvaro Vitali as himself (The Troupe)
  • Dante Maggio as himself – Italian Clown (credited as Maggio)
  • Galliano Sbarra as himself – Italian Clown (credited as Sbarra)
  • Peppino Janigro as himself – Italian Clown (credited as Janigro)
  • Carini as himself – Italian Clown
  • Maunsell as himself – Italian Clown
  • Nino Terzo as himself – Italian Clown (credited as Terzo)
  • Osiride Pevarello as Clown (Credited as Peverello)
  • Nino Vingelli as himself – Italian Clown (credited as Vingelli)
  • Alberto Sorrentino as himself – Italian Clown (credited as Sorrentino)
  • Fumagalli as himself – Italian Clown
  • Valdemaro as himself – Italian Clown
  • Luigi Zerbinati as himself – Italian Clown (credited as Zerbinati)
  • Ettore Bevilacqua as himself – Italian Clown (credited as Bevilacqua)
  • Maya Morin as Maya (La troupe)
  • Anna Lina Alberti as herself – Alvaro's mother (La troupe) (credited as Lina Alberti)
  • Gasparin as Gasparino (La troupe)
  • Alex as himself – French Clown
  • Georges Loriot as himself – French Clown (credited as Père Loriot)
  • Maïs as himself – French Clown
  • Bario as himself – French Clown
  • Ludo as himself – French Clown
  • Nino as himself – French Clown
  • Charlie Rivel as himself
  • Pierre Étaix as himself
  • Annie Fratellini as herself
  • Victor Fratellini as himself
  • Jean-Baptiste Thiérrée as himself (credited as Baptiste)
  • Tristan Remy as himself
  • Liana Orfei as herself
  • Rinaldo Orfei as himself
  • Nando Orfei as himself
  • Franco Migliorini as himself – Animal Tamer
  • Anita Ekberg as herself

Cameo/Uncredited

  • Maria Grazia Buccella as herself
  • Aristide Caporale as Railwayman
  • Victoria Chaplin as herself
  • Liliana Chiari as herself
  • Dante Cleri as Fascist
  • Shirley Corrigan as Audience member
  • Feverello as himself – Italian Clown
  • Gustavo Fratellini as himself – Italian Clown
  • Adelina Poerio as Dwarf nun

Production

The film was made for the Italian TV station RAI with an agreement that it would be released simultaneously as a cinema feature.[2] RAI and co-producer Leone Film compromised on its release, with RAI broadcasting it on Christmas Day, 1970, and Leone Film releasing it theatrically in Italy the following day, December 26, 1970.[3]

It is a

documentary and fiction in one, The Clowns distinguishes itself by being a mockumentary with unique characteristics, not the least of which is reflecting Fellini's own increasing fascination with how documentary films reflect "reality". Fellini had already explored this semi-fictional documentary genre in 1969's Fellini: A Director's Notebook and would further do so in 1987's Intervista
, both of which contain unreliable depictions of Fellini himself making the film within the film narrative.

Reception

The film has a 100% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 18 reviews with an average rating of 6.9/10.[5] Film Critic Roger Ebert gave the film three stars out of four.[6]

References

  1. ^ I Clowns review by Philip French at The Guardian, October 26, 2014
  2. ^ Baxter, J.: Fellini, page 260. St. Martins Press, 1993.
  3. ^ Baxter, J.: Fellini, page 270. St. Martins Press, 1993.
  4. ^ I clowns: Fellini's Mockumentary - article at The Artifice
  5. ^ "I Clowns (The Clowns) (1970)". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango Media. Retrieved 11 July 2018.
  6. ^ "The Clowns". rogerebert.com. 7 July 1971.

External links

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