Vitelloni (The Idlers)

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Movie
German title Vitelloni (The Idlers)
Original title I vitelloni
Country of production Italy
original language Italian
Publishing year 1953
length 100 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Federico Fellini
script Federico Fellini
Ennio Flaiano
Tullio Pinelli
production Jacques Bar
Mario De Vecchi
Lorenzo Pegoraro
music Nino Rota
camera Carlo Carlini
Otello Martelli
Luciano Trasatti
cut Rolando Benedetti
occupation

Vitelloni (The Idlers) (Original title: I vitelloni ) is a film of Italian neorealism from 1953, made under the direction of Federico Fellini .

The film is largely autobiographical and based on Fellini's experiences as a young man in his hometown of Rimini . Accordingly, the film takes place in a small town on the Adriatic coast . The story focuses on the lives of five young men, the female hero Fausto, the intellectual Leopoldo, the childish Alberto, the grown-up Moraldo and Riccardo, who stands in the background.

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At the beginning, the viewer witnesses a beauty contest that takes place on the small town's beach. The winner Sandra passes out and it turns out she is pregnant. The child's father is Fausto, a womanizer; he wants to run away to Milan, but under pressure from his father and Sandra's brother he marries her. After the wedding and the subsequent honeymoon, Fausto is more or less forced into a job by his father-in-law - he becomes a seller in an antiques and devotional items shop. With Sandra in the cinema, he hooks up with the lady on his other side, and even his padrone's wife is not safe from him after he has already given her clear compliments at the carnival.

But with that he goes overboard and is terminated. Moraldo makes it clear to him that he was entitled to a salary; Fausto persuades Moraldo to steal an angel figure from the business with him - as a kind of compensation for the withheld compensation. They try in vain to sell the stolen goods first to a suspicious nun and then to a suspicious monk. They get caught, but the scandal can just be swept under the carpet again because Fausto claims that it was not he who was after his padrone's wife, but she was after him.

However, the situation becomes unbearable for Sandra and she leaves Fausto together with their child. Fausto and his friends are looking for her and only find her after long hours with little Moraldino at Fausto's father. He does not hesitate long, but buckles off his belt and beats his son with it. Fausto and Sandra have found each other again - but the speaker does not promise much change. Only Moraldo - just like Federico Fellini himself - finds the strength to leave the petty-bourgeois milieu and take the train to Rome.

The final picture shows the boy, with whom Moraldo became friends, balancing happily on a rail after Moraldo said goodbye that he did not know whether it would be better somewhere else, but in any case it would be different.

Reviews

“The small town satire, shaped by Fellini's own youthful memories, is a masterful study full of subtle gags that added a new dimension to Italian neorealism. Human everyday life and the idleness in the life of the "five big calves" Vitelloni becomes poetic, melancholy, tragicomic, sometimes satirical, but always lovingly ironicized and exposed. "

- Lexicon of international film

influence

In 1963, director Stanley Kubrick named Vitelloni one of his ten favorite films.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Vitelloni. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  2. ↑ Michel Ciment: Kubrick: Biographical Notes. Accessed August 26, 2020 (English).