Julia and the ghosts

Movie
German title	Julia and the ghosts
Original title	Giulietta degli spiriti
Country of production	Italy , France
original language	Italian
Publishing year	1965
length	145 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
Rod
Director	Federico Fellini
script	Federico Fellini Ennio Flaiano Tullio Pinelli Brunello Rondi
production	Angelo Rizzoli
music	Nino Rota
camera	Gianni Di Venanzo
cut	Ruggero Mastroianni
occupation
Giulietta Masina : Giulietta Boldrini Sandra Milo : Suzy / Iris / Fanny Mario Pisu : Giorgio Valentina Cortese : Valentina Valeska Gert : Pijma José Luis de Vilallonga : Giorgio's friend Friedrich von Ledebur : Medium Caterina Boratto : Giulietta's mother Lou Gilbert : Grandfather Luisa Della Noce : Adele Silvana Jachino : Dolores Milena Vukotic : Elisabetta, the maid Fred Williams : Agent

Julia and the Ghosts (Original title: Giulietta degli spiriti ) is a film that was made in 1965 under the direction of Federico Fellini . It was his first color film.

action

When Julia learns of an affair with her husband Giorgio, she questions her marriage and her own approach to life and comes to a solution by freeing herself from the social pressure personified by her mother. This change also takes place on a level of visions, the "ghosts". Starting with a spiritualistic séance in which Julia is proclaimed that she is worthless and does not mean anything to anyone, through visions of pirates, her drowned school friend, obscene figures, she encounters apparitions that threaten her, drive her to her death or give them up Want to seduce ideals. At the same time, transfigured scenes from her childhood appear, culminating in the fact that Julia frees her vision as a child and embraces it and thus finds herself.

criticism

• Lexicon of international film : A study of the beneficial effects of the imagination that is characterized by great symbolic color compositions and the extraordinary differentiation in terms of acting, although not easy to decipher.

• Evangelical film observer : In a very convincing way, processes of the unconscious and subconscious are depicted with cinematic means and with the help of color. Giulietta Masina in the lead role supports Fellini's intentions with a mature performance. To recommend.

Awards (selection)

• In 1967 the film was nominated for an Oscar in the categories Best Art Direction-Set Decoration and Best Costume Design .
• In 1966, the film received the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film .

Web links

• Juliet of the Spirits in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Julia and the ghosts at Metacritic (English)
• Juliet of the Spirits at Rotten Tomatoes (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Julia and the ghosts. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .  
2. ↑ Critique No. 433/1965, p. 767