Roma (1972)
Director: Federico Fellini - Story e screenplay: Federico Fellini, Bernardino Zapponi - Director of photography: Giuseppe Rotunno - Film editor: Ruggero Mastroianni - Art direction conception: Federico Fellini - Art direction and costumes designer: Danilo Donati - Music: Nino Rota Production: Turi Vasile for Ultra Film (Roma), Les Productions Artistes Associés (Paris) - Country: Italy/France - Running time: ca. 120’
Cast: Federico Fellini (Himself), Anna Magnani (Herself), Marcello Mastroianni (Himself), Gore Vidal (Himself), Alberto Sordi (Himself), Feodor Chaliapin (Giulio Cesare), Peter Gonzales (Fellini eighteen-year-old), Fiona Florence (Dolores, prostitute), Pia De Doses (Princess Domitilla), Marne Maitland (Catacomb guide), Renato Giovannoli (Cardinal Ottaviani), Dennis Christopher (Hippie)
The film:
"What is Rome? What do I think of when I hear the word Rome? I’ve often asked myself this. And I know more or less. I think of a large reddish face rather like Sordi’s, Fabrizi’s, or Ms. Magnani’s. An expression slightly weighted down and preoccupied by gastro-sexual needs. I think of a dark brown, sludgy land; a broad swaddled sky, as a backdrop, with purples, blacks and silvers; mournful colours. But by and large it’s a comforting face. Comforting because Rome allows you every type of speculation in a vertical sense. Rome is a horizontal city, made of water and land, stretched out – and therefore the perfect platform for flights of fancy."
Federico Fellini, Roma & Fellini, in Federico Fellini, Roma, a cura di Bernardino Zapponi, Cappelli, Bologna 1972
The film restoration:
The digital restoration of Roma was conducted by the Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna, the Museo Nazionale del Cinema di Torino and the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia–Cineteca Nazionale, in collaboration with Titanus, and it is based on the original negatives belonging to Titanus and which are conserved at the Cineteca di Bologna.
After the film’s premiere in Rome, Fellini decided to cut some scenes to lighten up the film’s structure. The cut scenes were also restored and printed on a separate reel.
The restoration was carried out at the laboratory L’Immagine Ritrovata in 2010.
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