translated from Spanish: Italy: they present a museum dedicated to the director Federico Fellini

They inaugurated a museum dedicated to Federico Fellini in Rimini, his hometown, which unfolds over 16 rooms of a mythical fifteenth-century castle – a few meters from where the Italian filmmaker saw his first film sitting on his father’s lap. The place proposes to the visitor from walks through the winter fog of the beach with the Fellinian characters to impossible dialogues between the Marcello Mastroianni of “La dolce vita” and that of “8 1/2”. The initiative, carried out by the film company Lumière and designed by Studio Azzurro offers spaces that celebrate Fellini’s actors and collaborators, especially two of them: Mastroianni and Anita Ekberg.
The room dedicated to the latter is called “La sognante” (The Dreamer) and in it a gigantic statue reproduces the actress in the famous scene of “La Dolce Vita” in which she appears getting wet in the Trevi Fountain, in Rome.The newly opened Museum offers several interactive spaces dedicated to life and work, dreams and reality, of the Italian director, who at age 18 went to the Italian capital looking for his fortune as a cartoonist and draftsman, although his unwavering homeland was always the Teatro 5 of Cinecittà, where he built most of his daydreams. Fellini won five Oscars. Twelve of his films were nominated for the prestigious award. He worked with actress Giulietta Masina, his absolute muse, whom he married in 1943 and entered into a professional relationship with Roma. There were filmed “Ocho y medio” (1963), “La Strada”, “La Dolce Vita” (1960), “Las noches de Cabiria” (1958) and also some of his last films, such as “Y la nave va” (1983) or “Ginger y Fred”.

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