I Vitelloni (1953 Venice Film Festival Award Winner)

Published: Jan. 4, 2023, 6 a.m.

The ninth episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1953 features the Venice International Film Festival co-winner, Federico Fellini’s I Vitelloni. Directed and co-written by Federico Fellini and starring Franco Fabrizi, Franco Interlenghi, Alberto Sordi, Leopoldo Trieste, and Riccardo Fellini, I Vitelloni shared the top prize at Venice in 1953 with five other movies.

The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Campbell Dixon in the Daily Telegraph, Bosley Crowther in The New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/1956/10/24/archives/the-screen-vitelloni-italian-drama-delves-into-social-problem.html), and K.W. in the Richmond Times-Dispatch.

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