Federico Fellini

In this book, which is a lengthy dialogue conducted - in the early eighties of the last century - by the Italian film critic Giovanni Grazini with Federico Fellini, one of the most famous and influential directors in world cinema, and among those who shaped through their prominent and important films a special and distinguished world in which his artistic and intellectual vision was embodied. In this book, the great director expresses his visions, viewpoints, and attitudes towards life and art. He also generously but with frank cunning presents what memory and imagination dictate. Recalling his childhood, adolescence, and youth... with all the jokes, fears, events, and phenomena related to them. And just as his cinematic images, which he creates in his films, are characterized by complexity and interconnection, so do his statements and stories appear... because life, for him, is a continuous interaction between reality and imagination, between what is apparent on the surface and the mystery hidden beneath.