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Film still from OTTO E MEZZO: A smiling young woman looks up at the sky, a bright lamp shines on the wall next to her.

Mon 20.05.
20:00

  • Director

    Federico Fellini

  • Italy, France / 1963
    138 min. / 35 mm / Original version with English subtitles

  • with

    Claudia Cardinale, Marcello Mastroianni, Anouk Aimée, Sandra Milo, Barbara Steele

  • Original language

    Italian

  • Cinema

    Arsenal 1

    zu den Ticketszu dem Kalender

OTTO E MEZZO tells the story of filmmaker Guido Anselmi (Marcello Mastroianni), who is the midst of a creative crisis, remembering his repressed complexes and lost childhood dreams as well as reflecting on his relationship to art, woman and ultimately the meaning of life. Federico Fellini cast Claudia Cardinale as his muse, as the source of his inspiration. And he made sure that after she had been dubbed for many years, her own dark, rough voice could finally be heard in the film. “For Fellini, Claudia Cardinale was the ideal woman, a director’s gossamer of dreams who is sure that this girl could be the solution for everything. And when she appears for the first time, floating through the gardens of a health resort barefoot in a white nurse’s outfits, that does indeed seem possible.” (Michael Althen) (hjf)

Funded by:

  • Logo Minister of State for Culture and the Media