The Clowns (film)
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| Directed by | Federico Fellini |
| Produced by | Elio Scardamaglia |
| Written by | Story and Screenplay: Federico Fellini Bernardino Zapponi |
| Starring | Federico Fellini |
| Music by | Nino Rota |
| Edited by | Ruggero Mastroianni |
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Release dates
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December 25, 1970 |
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Running time
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92 min. |
| Language | Italian |
I clowns (also known as The Clowns) is a 1970 film by Federico Fellini about the human fascination with clowns and circuses.[1]
Production
The film was made for the Italian TV station RAI with an agreement that it would be released simultaneously as a cinema feature.[2] RAI and co-producer Leone Film compromised on its release, with RAI broadcasting it on Christmas Day, 1970, and Leone Film releasing it theatrically in Italy the following day, December 26, 1970.[3]
It is a docufiction: part reality, part fantasy. The Clowns was incorrectly referred as the first mockumentary in film history.[4] In fact, A Hard Day's Night (1964) appears to be the first one. Nonetheless, being documentary and fiction in one, The Clowns distinguishes itself by being a mockumentary with unique characteristics.
Cast
Main
- Riccardo Billi as Himself - Italian Clown (Credited as Billi)
- Federico Fellini as Himself
- Gigi Reder as Himself - Italian Clown (Credited as Reder)
- Tino Scotti as Himself - Italian Clown (Credited as Scotti)
- Valentini as Himself - Italian Clown
- Fanfulla as Himself - Italian Clown
- Merli as Himself - Italian Clown
- Carlo Rizzo as Himself - Italian Clown (Credited as Rizzo)
- Colombaioni as Themselves - Italian Clowns (Credited as I 4 Colombaioni)
- Pistoni as Himself - Italian Clown
- Martana as Themselves - Italian Clowns (Credited as I Martana)
- Giacomo Furia as Himself - Italian Clown (Credited as Furia)
- Alvaro Vitali as Himself (The Troupe)
- Dante Maggio as Himself - Italian Clown (Credited as Maggio)
- Galliano Sbarra as Himself - Italian Clown (Credited as Sbarra)
- Peppino Janigro as Himself - Italian Clown (Credited as Janigro)
- Carini as Himself - Italian Clown
- Maunsell as Himself - Italian Clown
- Nino Terzo as Himself - Italian Clown (Credited as Terzo)
- Osiride Pevarello as Clown (Credited as Peverello)
- Nino Vingelli as Himself - Italian Clown (Credited as Vingelli)
- Alberto Sorrentino as Himself - Italian Clown (Credited as Sorrentino)
- Fumagalli as Himself - Italian Clown
- Valdemaro as Himself - Italian Clown
- Luigi Zerbinati as Himself - Italian Clown (Credited as Zerbinati)
- Ettore Bevilacqua as Himself - Italian Clown (Credited as Bevilacqua)
- Maya Morin as Maya (La troupe)
- Anna Lina Alberti]as Herself - Alvaro's mother (La troupe) (Credited as Lina Alberti)
- Gasparin] as Gasparino (La troupe)
- Alex asHimself - French Clown
- Georges Loriot as Himself - French Clown (Credited as Père Loriot)
- Maïs as Himself - French Clown
- Bario as Himself - French Clown
- Ludo as Himself - French Clown
- Nino as Himself - French Clown
- Charlie Rivel as Himself
- Pierre Étaix as Himself
- Annie Fratellini as Herself
- Victor Fratellini as Himself
- Jean-Baptiste Thiérrée as Himself (Credited as Baptiste)
- Tristan Remy as Himself
- Liana Orfei as Herself
- Rinaldo Orfei as Himself
- Nando Orfei as Himself
- Franco Migliorini as Himself - Animal Tamer
- Anita Ekberg as Herself
Cameo/Uncredited
- Maria Grazia Buccella as Herself
- Aristide Caporale as Railwayman
- Victoria Chaplin as Herself
- Liliana Chiari as Herself
- Dante Cleri as Fascist
- Shirley Corrigan as Audience member
- Feverello as Himself - Italian Clown
- Gustavo Fratellini as Himself - Italian Clown
- Adelina Poerio as Dwarf nun
References
- ↑ I Clowns review by Philip French at The Guardian, October 26, 2014
- ↑ Baxter, J.: Fellini, page 260. St. Martins Press, 1993.
- ↑ Baxter, J.: Fellini, page 270. St. Martins Press, 1993.
- ↑ I clowns: Fellini’s Mockumentary - article at The Artifice
External links
- The Clowns at Rottent Tomatoes
- Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). I clowns at IMDb
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