Fellini Roma

Master director Federico Fellini moved into the realm of self-reflexive autobiography with Marcello Mastroianni as Fellini's alter ego Guido Anselmi, a film director who, overwhelmed by the large-scale production he has undertaken, plunges into an interior world where fantasy and memory impinge on reality. Fellini jumbles narrative logic by freely cutting from flashbacks to dream sequences to the present until it becomes impossible to pry them apart, creating both a psychological portrait of Guido's interior world and the surrealistic, circus-like exterior world that came to be known as "Felliniesque."

Gianni, Antonio e Nicola sono tre partigiani divenuti amici durante i giorni della guerra di liberazione che, dopo la fine del conflitto si dividono: Nicola ritorna a Nocera Inferiore dove svolge la professione di insegnante, Antonio a Roma dove riprende il lavoro di portantino in un ospedale, e Gianni a Pavia per terminare gli studi di giurisprudenza.