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Federico Fellini's epic 1980 fantasia introduced the start of the Maestro's delirious late period. A surrealist tour-de-force filmed on soundstages and locations alike, and overflowing with the same sensory (and sensual) invention heretofore found only in the classic movie-musicals (and Fellini's own oeuvre), La città delle donne City of Women taps into the era's restless youth culture, coalescing into nothing less than Fellini's post-punk opus. Marcello Mastroianni appears as Fellini's alter ego in a semi-reprise of his character from 8 1/2, Snàporaz. As though passing into a dream, the charismatic avatar finds himself initiated into a phantasmagoric world where women--or an idea of women--have taken power, and which is structured like an array of psychosexual set-pieces, culminating in a bravura hot-air balloon that decisively sticks the "anti" up into "climax."
Original Release
03/28/1980
US Release
03/28/1980
Cast
Name | Character |
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Marcello Mastroianni | Snàporaz |
Anna Prucnal | Elena / Elena, the wife |
Bernice Stegers | Woman on train / The lady on the train |
Jole Silvani | Motorcyclist / The motorcyclist (as Iole Silvani) |
Ettore Manni | Dr. Xavier Katzone |
Fiammetta Baralla | Oliver Hardy |
Hélène Calzarelli | Feminist |
Catherine Carrel | Commandant |
Marcello Di Falco | Slave |
Silvana Fusacchia | Skater |
Directors
Writers
Federico Fellini, Bernardino Zapponi, Brunello Rondi
Cast
Name | Character |
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Marcello Mastroianni | Snàporaz |
Anna Prucnal | Elena / Elena, the wife |
Bernice Stegers | Woman on train / The lady on the train |
Jole Silvani | Motorcyclist / The motorcyclist (as Iole Silvani) |
Ettore Manni | Dr. Xavier Katzone |
Fiammetta Baralla | Oliver Hardy |
Hélène Calzarelli | Feminist |
Catherine Carrel | Commandant |
Marcello Di Falco | Slave |
Silvana Fusacchia | Skater |
Gabriella Giorgelli | Fishwoman of San Leo / Fishmonger of San Leo |
Dominique Labourier | Feminist |
Stéphane Emilfork | Feminist |
Sylvie Matton | Feminist / Feminist (as Sylvie Mayer) |
Meerberger Nahyr | |
Sibilla Sedat | Judge |
Katren Gebelein | Enderbreith Small |
Alessandra Panelli | Housewife |
Nadia Vasil | Feminist |
Loredana Solfizi | Black Feminist |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Luciano De Feo | Producer |
Bob Guccione | Producer |
Franco Rossellini | Producer |
Renzo Rossellini | Producer |
Daniel Toscan du Plantier | Producer |