Eight and half

Eight and half ( Otto E mezzo ) is an Italian film carried out by Federico Fellini, left 1963.

Synopsis

A depressive scenario writer flees the cinema world and takes refuge in a populated universe of memories and phantasms. Emerge from the images of its past, its childhood and the religious school of its youth, Saraghina which danced on the beach for the schoolboys, its insane dreams of “harem”, his/her parents deceased. In the thermal spa where it was insulated, his Louisa wife, her Carla mistress, her friends, her actors, her collaborators and her producer come to visit it, so that finally the film is carried out on which it must work.

Data sheet

Title: Eight and half
original Title: Otto E mezzo
Realization: Federico Fellini
Scenario: Federico Fellini, Tullio Pinelli, Ennio Flaiano and Brunello Trimmed
Production: Angelo Rizzoli, Federico Fellini
Music: Nino Rota
Photography: Gianni Venanzo, cameraman: Pasquale de Santis
Assembly: Leo Cattozzo
Decorations and costumes: Piero Gherardi
Country of origin: Italy
Format: Black and white - 1,66:1 - Mono - 35mm
Kind: comedy
Lasted: 114 minutes (1. 54)
Coming out date: February 17th 1963 (first with Milan); May 29th 1963 (France).

Distribution

Marcello Mastroianni (VF: Jean-Claude Michel) : Guido Anselmi
Anouk Aimee: Louisa Anselmi
Sandra Milo: Carla
Claudia Cardinale: Claudia
Rossella Fark : Rossella
Barbara Steele: Gloria Morin
Mario Pisu; Mezzabotta
Guido Alberti : Pace, the producer
Madeleine LeBeau: Madeleine, the French actress
Jean Rougeul: The scenario writer
Eddra Scale: Saraghina
Mario Gemini: Guido child
Mino Doro: the agent of Claudia
Caterina Boratto: the mysterious woman
Annibale Ninchi: the father of Guido
Giuditta Risson: the mother of Guido
Tito Masini: the cardinal

Distinctions

Ribbons of money 1963: better realizer, better producing, better prone, better scenario, better photography, better music, better secondary feminine role (Sandra Milo).
NYFCC Award 1963 : better foreign film
International festival of film of Moscow 1963: Grand Prix
Oscar of the cinema 1964: better foreign film, better costumes in a film in black and white
Bodil 1964: better European film
Kinema Junpo Award 1966: better foreign film foreign film and better realizer

Around film

at the very least atypical title of this film comes from what Fellini hitherto carried out eight feature-length films and a Short film ( Boccace 70 in Co-realization)
Fidèle to its type-setter of music since the white Sheik in 1952, Fellini again entrusts the music of this film to Nino Rota which signs one of the most memorable partitions.
a Canadian of Eight and half Remake was carried out, in the form of a Televised series: by in 1998

See too

Eight and half on the official site of Federico Fellini
Eight and half on Internet Movie Database

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