8½

Name: 8½
Genre: Drama
Released: 1963-02-14
Duration: 2 h 19 min
Rating: 8
Cast: Marcello Mastroianni, Claudia Cardinale, Anouk Aimée, Sandra Milo, Rossella Falk

A picture that goes beyond what men think about - because no man ever thought about it in quite this way!

8½ (1963)

Timing: 2:19 (139 min)

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Watch film 8½ — 35mm Trailer [Subtitled]

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Website

https://www.janusfilms.com/films/1012

Director

Federico Fellini

Actors

Marcello Mastroianni, Claudia Cardinale, Anouk Aimée, Sandra Milo, Rossella Falk, Barbara Steele, Madeleine Lebeau, Caterina Boratto, Eddra Gale, Guido Alberti
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Scenario

Producer

Angelo Rizzoli

Operator

Gianni Di Venanzo

Composer

Nino Rota

Artist

Piero Gherardi

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Editing

Leo Catozzo
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Short description

Guido Anselmi, a film director, finds himself creatively barren at the peak of his career. Urged by his doctors to rest, Anselmi heads for a luxurious resort, but a sorry group gathers—his producer, staff, actors, wife, mistress, and relatives—each one begging him to get on with the show. In retreat from their dependency, he fantasizes about past women and dreams of his childhood.

What's left behind the scenes

Fellini considered giving the lead role to Laurence Olivier.
Filming took place from May 9th to October 14th, 1962.
Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev, who attended the competitive screening of the film in Moscow, did not stay until the end of the session and fell asleep. When Fellini learned that Khrushchev had fallen asleep at the film's premiere, he decided not to attend the award ceremony and left with Giulietta Masina and friends to a country house near Moscow.
Fellini constantly gave himself a written reminder – “Remember, it’s a comedy.”
The working title of the film was “La Bella Confusione,” or “The Beautiful Confusion.”
Thanks to the film's participation in the Moscow International Film Festival, Federico Fellini and Giulietta Masina visited the Soviet Union for the first and last time.
This is Federico Fellini's eighth and a half film. Previously, he directed six feature-length and two short films (which he counted as one), as well as “Variety Lights,” created in collaboration with Alberto Lattuada (which he considered half a film).
Like almost all Italian films of those years, this one was shot without sound. All dialogue was dubbed onto the footage during post-production. During filming, Federico Fellini (1920-1993) shouted instructions to the actors, and after filming, he often rewrote lines, resulting in dialogue in his films often appearing out of sync with the actors' movements.
The original ending had Guido and his wife sitting in the dining car of a train to Rome, and the train enters a tunnel. Federico Fellini subsequently filmed another ending with a spaceship at sunset on the beach; he intended to use it only in a promotional trailer, but he and other members of the film crew decided that this ending was even better than the original.