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I Vitelloni

I vitelloni

  • Status: Released
  • 17-09-1953
  • Runtime: 103 min
  • Score: 7.642
  • Vote count: 723

Five young men dream of success as they drift lazily through life in a small Italian village. Fausto, the group's leader, is a womanizer; Riccardo craves fame; Alberto is a hopeless dreamer; Moraldo fantasizes about life in the city; and Leopoldo is an aspiring playwright. As Fausto chases a string of women, to the horror of his pregnant wife, the other four blunder their way from one uneventful experience to the next.

Franco Interlenghi

Moraldo Rubini

Alberto Sordi

Alberto

Franco Fabrizi

Fausto Moretti

Leopoldo Trieste

Leopoldo Vannucci

Riccardo Fellini

Riccardo

Leonora Ruffo

Sandra Rubini

Jean Brochard

Francescco Moretti

Claude Farell

Olga

Carlo Romano

Michele Curti

Enrico Viarisio

Signor Rubini

Paola Borboni

Signora Rubini

Lída Baarová

Giulia Curti

Arlette Sauvage

Mysterious Woman at the Cinema

Vira Silenti

Gisella

Maja Niles

Caterina

Achille Majeroni

Sergio Natali

Guido Martufi

Guido

Silvio Bagolini

Giudizio

Milvia Chianelli

Riccardo's Friend

Enzo Andronico

A Boy at the Carnival (uncredited)

Alberto Anselmi

(uncredited)

Riccardo Cucciolla

Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Gustavo De Nardo

(uncredited)

Graziella De Roc

(uncredited)

Giovanna Galli

Ballerina (uncredited)

Franca Gandolfi

Ballerina (uncredited)

Lilia Landi

Self (uncredited)

Gigetta Morano

Alberto and Olga's Mother (uncredited)

Lino Toffolo

A Boy at the Carnival (uncredited)

Gondrano Trucchi

(uncredited)

CinemaSerf

I will admit that I still struggle to quite understand the awe Fellini seems to generate amongst fans. His films are beautifully shot but usually involve the most shallow of individuals faffing around in a vacuous world of privilege and emptiness. This one is much the same - "Fausto" (Franco Fabrizi) is a bit of a playboy who is stuck in an unhappy marriage with the sister of his friend "Moraldo" (Franco Interlenghi). He still plays away from home, and she usually forgives him until at last she has had enough and absconds with their child. He and his friend set off to find her... Perhaps he has grown up, and he does really care? I didn't really know, nor care myself. The characters are womanising, drunken, louts - good looking, I suppose - but their arrogance towards those less fortunate is irritating; their attitudes towards women - an approach I find common in Fellini films - almost prehistoric. It does have some moments of comedy and is a joy to watch from any aesthetic perspective. Good, but not great....