I Vitelloni

About the movie

Five young men linger in a constant limbo, dreaming of adventure and escape from their small seacoast town. They waste their time spending money on alcohol, women, and nights at the local pool hall. The gang consists of the womanizer 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.
Federico Fellini’s second solo directorial effort (originally released in the U.S. as The Young and the Passionate) is a semiautobiographical masterpiece. An international success and recipient of an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay, winner of the Silver Lion at Venice Film Festival and nominated for the Golden Lion. I Vitelloni compassionately details a year in the life of a group of small-town layabouts struggling to find meaning in their lives.

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