I VITELLONI (1953) - (The Criterion Collection - #246) [DVD9] [2004]

Five young men linger in a postadolescent limbo, dreaming of adventure and escape from their small seacoast town. They while away their time spending the lira doled out by their indulgent families on drink, women, and nights at the local pool hall. Federico Fellini’s second solo directorial effort (originally released in the U.S. as The Young and the Passionate) is a semiautobiographical masterpiece of sharply drawn character sketches: Skirt chaser Fausto, forced to marry a girl he has impregnated; Alberto, the perpetual child; Leopoldo, a writer thirsting for fame; and Moraldo, the only member of the group troubled by a moral conscience. An international success and recipient of an Academy Award® nomination for Best Original Screenplay, I vitelloni compassionately details a year in the life of a group of small-town layabouts struggling to find meaning in their lives.





MOVIE:
DIRECTOR: Federico Fellini
COUNTRY: Italy
YEAR: 1953

Cast
Franco Interlenghi
Alberto Sordi
Franco Fabrizi
Leopoldo Trieste
Riccardo Fellini
Leonora Ruffo
Jean Brochard
Claude Farell
Carlo Romano


Credits
Director: Federico Fellini
Screenplay: Federico Fellin, Ennio Flaiano (story), Tullio Pinelli (story)
Cinematography: Carlo Carlini, Otello Martelli, Luciano Trasatti
Production Design: Mario Chiari
Editing: Rolando Benedetti
Original Music: Nino Rota


DVD:
DVD RELEASE: August 24, 2004
STUDIO: Criterion
CATALOG: 246
SYSTEM: NTSC
SCREEN: 1.33:1
COLOR: Black and White
AUDIO: Italian Dolby Digital Mono
SUBTITLES: English
RUNTIME (MOVIE): 103 minutes

EXTRACTION:
ENGINE: DVD Fab + Ultra ISO
DVD: 1 Full Dual-Layer DVD
FILE EXTENSION: Image (.ISO)
FILE SIZE: 7.19 GBs







Disc Features:

* New high-definition digital transfer, with restored image and sound
* Vitellonismo: an exclusive documentary featuring interviews with late actor Leopoldo Trieste, actor Franco Interlenghi, assistant director Moraldo Rossi, Fellini biographer Tullio Kezich, Fellini friend Vincenzo Mollica, and director of the Fellini Foundation, Vittorio Boarini
* Collection of still photographs, posters, and memorabilia
* Original theatrical trailer
* New and improved English subtitle translation
* Optimal image quality: RSDL dual-layer edition
* Plus: a new essay by writer Tom Piazza (My Cold War: A Novel, Blues and Trouble: Twelve Stories)

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