Fellini's City of Women

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Movie
German title Fellini's City of Women
Original title La città delle donne
La città delle donne.jpg
Country of production Italy , France
original language Italian
Publishing year 1980
length 139 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Federico Fellini
script Federico Fellini,
Paula Mitchell ,
Brunello Rondi ,
Bernardino Zapponi
production Franco Rossellini ,
Renzo Rossellini ,
Daniel Toscan du Plantier
music Luis Bacalov
camera Giuseppe Rotunno
cut Ruggero Mastroianni
occupation

Fellini's City of Women (original title: La città delle donne ) is a surreal tragicomedy by the Italian director Federico Fellini from 1980. In the midst of dream-like, unusual images that are characteristic of Fellini, Marcello Mastroianni plays a man who walks through male and female worlds travels until he is confronted with his inclinations towards women and his wife.

action

The lustful womanizer Snàporaz meets a seductive woman on the train. He pursues her into a forest and eventually finds himself in a remote hotel. To his horror, a congress of militant feminists is currently taking place there, for whom Snàporaz is a hit. He is mocked and humiliated. Trapped in this world dominated by women, he is confronted with his sexual fantasies, prejudices and fears. He meets a feminist group who are training on a male doll to kick him in the testicles "as a punishment". Escape seems impossible.

On the run through the forest, he is taken to the protected villa of Dr. Xavier Katzone recorded. Katzone - a gun fanatic and womanizer - has known how to resist the world of women for ages. A lavish festivity quickly ensues in Katzone's villa. Snàporaz spends the night surrounded by Katzone's domesticated women. Snàporaz's own wife is also present and criticizes her lack of independence.

Under Katzone's guest bed, Snàporaz discovers the entrance to a roller coaster of happiness, in which hard-working housewives are staged as curiosities and ideal images. At the end of the journey, Snàporaz was acquitted in a women's court for his crimes against women against his expectations. But he, who, it seems, feels guilty, wants to know what happens to the condemned and goes the way of the condemned. In a large arena in front of a crowd of women, he climbs up a ladder, as he is told, and at the end of it - instead of a monster expected to punish men - he finds an old woman in a boxing ring, whom he already knew from the past. But this tells him to continue to climb a rope ladder, and he gets into the basket of a large balloon in the form of a highly erotic woman and thus seems saved. Then a masked feminist steps on the plateau of the arena building and shoots the balloon and basket with her submachine gun, so that it finally falls. During the fall, a woman, clad skin-tight, in a bewitchingly beautiful figure and with a provocative look under blond hair, jumps like a cat to the net of the balloon to which Snàporaz is clinging, and looks him in the face. It is probably the death of Snàporaz - in the highly erotic, provocative and yet life-demanding female figure he dreamed of. At this moment, however, Snàporaz wakes up and finds himself across from his wife in the compartment of the train in which he once sat - and the compartment is slowly filling up with women who played important roles in his dream. Snàporaz accepts the action.

background

Ettore Manni died while filming from a shot in the groin. The script then had to be reworked.

Christine de Pizan described (around 1405) with Le Livre de la Cité des Dames the first model of a city founded and administered solely by women.

Nino Rota , who had contributed the music for many Fellini films, died in 1979 while preparing the soundtrack.

Reviews

"In a spectacular, extravagant sequence of scenes Fellini reflects the confusion of the male 'conqueror' in the face of the changed social situation in grotesque and fantasmagoric images."

“Federico Fellini's surreal sheet of images is a swan song for the man who loves women and who only encounters his own ridiculousness in his search for the ideal creature. Macho Marcello Mastroianni (in a prime role) dives into the world of feminists and experiences his 'blue wonder' in a dream trip. In elaborate and fantastic pictures, old master Fellini shows the situation of a traditional womanizer in view of the progressive emancipation of women. "

“'Fellini's City of Women' caused a scandal because the feminist groups the director had engaged only recognized a denunciating caricature of their ideas. From today's point of view, Fellini's surreal picture arches, staged with exuberant imagination, are a satirical of typical male fantasies and fears. Curious, lustful and cowardly, Marcello Mastroianni, the director's alter ego, stumbles through the labyrinth of his own dreams, delusions and prejudices in search of the ideal woman. "

Rating 5 out of 6 possible points in the gong (magazine)

Awards

Sindacato Nazionale Giornalisti Cinematografici Italiani 1980: Nastro d'Argento

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. See prisma.de
  3. Einsfestival - program week 3/2010  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (P. 68; PDF; 330 kB) accessed on September 6, 2012@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / programm.ard.de