| Title: | La Dolce Vita |
| Foreign Titles: | La Douceur de Vivre [FR] Das süße Leben [DE] Det Søde Liv [DK] La Dulce Vida [SP] A Doce Vida [PT] The Sweet Life [US] Slatki Zivot [YU] |
| Director: | Federico Fellini |
| Director Help: | Guidarino Guidi, Paolo Nuzzi, Dominique Delouche |
| Assistant Directors: | Giancarlo Romani, Gianfranco Mingozzi, Lilli Veenman |
| Writing credits: | Federico Fellini, Tullio Pinelli, Ennio Flaiano from an idea by Federico Fellini, Tullio Pinelli, Ennio Flaiano |
| Script and artistic Collaboration: | Brunello Rondi |
| Editor: | Leo Catozzo |
| Assistant Editors: | Adriana and Wanda Olasio |
| Co-production: | Riama Film-Roma, Cinecitta', Pathé Consortium Cinéma-Paris |
| First distributed in Italia: | Cineriz |
| First distributed in US: | Astor Films |
| Producers: | Giuseppe Amato (Producer), Franco Magli (A.D.C.) (Executive Producer), Angelo Rizzoli (Producer) |
| Music: | Nino Rota directed by Franco Ferrara |
| Song: | Ready Teddy by Adriano Celentano |
| Sound: | Agostino Moretti |
| Cinematography: | Otello Martelli (A.I.C.) |
| Cameraman: | Arturo Zavattini |
| Assistant Cameraman: | Ennio Guarnieri |
| Scenography and Costumes: | Piero Gherardi |
| Scenography Assistants: | Giorgio Giovannini, Lucia Mirisola, Vito Anzalone |
| Running Time: | 167 minutes |
| Format: | Totalscope |
| Censorship visa: | No 31070, 1960-01-21 |
| Release Dates: | 1960-02-04 [IT] 1960-05-11 [FR] 1961-00-00 [UK] 1961-04-19, Henry Miller's Theater, New York City [US] |
| Cast: |
Marcello Mastroianni: Marcello "Snaporaz" Rubini Anita Ekberg: Sylvia Rank, an American movie star Anouk Aimée [Françoise Sorya]: Maddalena, Marcello's lover Yvonne Furneaux: Emma, Marcello's fiancée Magali Noël: Fanny, French dancer in night club Alain Cuny: Henry Steiner Valeria Ciangottini: Paola, waitress at seaside restaurant Audrey McDonald: Sonia Polidor: Clown at night club Vittorio Manfrino: Director of night club Cesare Miceli Picardi: Irate man in night club Donatella Esparmer: 1st woman with irate man in night club Maria Pia Serafini: Secondwoman with irate man in night club Alain Dijon: Frankie Stout, an American actor Walter Santesso: Paparazzo, 1st newspaper photographer Giulio Paradisi: Secondnewspaper photographer Enzo Cerusico: 3rd newspaper photographer Enzo Doria: 4th newspaper photographer Giulio Girola: Police commissioner Laura Betti: Laura, the blonde singing actress Nico Otzak: Nico, (Nicolina), Swedish girl (Don Giulio's mistress, Prince Mascalchi's fiancée), a prostitute Annibale Ninchi: Mr. Rubini, Marcello's father Domino: Transvestite dancer Antonio Jaconi: 1st transvestite Carlo Musto: Secondtransvestite Lex Barker: Robert, Sylvia's fiancé Jacques Sernas: Matinee idol Nadia Gray: Nadia, exhibitionist American Mino Doro: Nadia Gray's lover Enrico Glori: Nadia Gray's admirer Umberto Orsini The young man who helps Nadia Gray to undress Leonardo Botta: Doctor Giuseppe Addobbati: Doctor Carlo Mariotti: Nurse Giacomo Gabrielli: Maddalena's father Ferdinando Brofferio: "Wa-Wa", Maddalena's lover Paolo Labia: Maid at Maddalena's house Tito Buzzo: Muscle man Daniela Calvino: Daniela Adriano Celentano: Adriano, rock singer Sandy von Norman: Press conference interpreter Sandra Lee: Spoleto Ballerina Christine Denise: The lady who eats the chicken Carlo di Maggio: Totò Scalise, producer Francesco Consalvo: Totò Scalise's assistant Guglielmo Leoncini: Totò Scalise's secretary Riccardo Garrone: Riccardo, the Villa owner Lilly Granado: Lucy Gloria Jones: Gloria Francesco Luzi: Radio news columnist Harriet White: Sylvia's secretary Adriana Moneta: Prostitute Anna Maria Salerno: The prostitute's friend Oscar Ghiglia: Their pimp Gino Marturano: Their Secondpimp Gianfranco Mingozzi: The young priest Franca Pasutt: Girl covered with feathers Luise Rainer: Dolores, the aging writer [scene edited out] Alfredo Rizzo: Television director Franco Rossellini: The handsome rider Archie Savage: Negro dancer Leopoldo Savona: Negro dancer Leo Coleman: Negro dancer Gio Staiano: Effeminate male Tomás Torres: Reporter at hospital Leontine von Strein: Matinee Idol's Girl Friend Italo Zingarelli: Don Giulio Giancarlo Romani: Gendarme Paola Fadda: Vice-superintendent Vando Tres: Local superintendent Gondrano Trucchi: Maid at Caracallas Franco Giacobini: Reporter on the phone Decimo Cristiani Young man who doesn't talk Renato Mambor: Tall young man PRINCES MASCALCHI'S CASTLE, BASSANO DI SUTRI: Prince Don Eugenio Ruspoli di Poggio Suasa: Don Eugenio Mascalchi (the Prince Father) Giulio Questi: Don Giulio Mascalchi (Nico's lover) (the Prince son) Prince Vadim Wolkowsky: Prince Mascalchi (Nico's fiancé) Count Ivenda Dobrzensky: Don Giovanni Mascalchi (the Prince grandson) Princess of Montezoduni: Lady Brod Donna Doris Pignatelli, Princess of Monteroduni: The sleeping duchess Countess Cristina Paolizi: The young girl who's riding Countess Elisabetta Cini: The sleeping duchess Joan Antequera: Spanish envoy Count Carlo Kechler: Man at the clock Count Brunoro Serego Alighieri: Young man with mink coat Maria Teresa Wolodimeroff: Thed tired lady Loretta Ramaciotti: Federica, woman possessed in seance Ida Galli: Irena, Débutante of the Year Lady Rosemary Rennell-Rodd: English medium Maria Marigliano: Massimilla Mario de Grenet: The young man tired of the dog Lucia Vasilicò: The little girl who confesses Katherine Denise Oretta Fiume Nina Hohenlohe Mario Conocchia PEOPLE AT HENRY STEINER'S: Renée Longarini: Mrs. Anna Steiner Giuliana Lojodice: Maid at Steiner's Federika André: Lodger at Steiner's Iris Tree: Steiner's guest, poetess Leonida Repaci: Steiner's guest, a poet Anna Salvatore: Steiner's guest Letizia Spadini: Steiner's guest Margherita Russo: Steiner's guest, a Norwegian abstract painter Winie Vagliani: Steiner's guest Desmond O'Grady: Steiner's guest PEOPLE AT CIAMPINO AIRPORT: Tiziano Cortini: Movie news operator Maria Teresa Vianello Angela Giavalisco Maria Mazzanti PRESS CONFERENCE JOURNALISTS: Maurizio Guelfi Maité Morand Donatella della Nora John Francis Lane Concetta Ragusa François Dieudonné Nadia Balabine Umberto Felici Henry Thody Donato Castellaneta Mario Mallamo Sandy von Norman: Interpret at Press conference PEOPLE IN MIRACLE SEQUENCE: Ada Passeri Lisa Schneider Aldo Vasco Francisco Lori Alex Messoyedoff: The priest at the miracle Marianna Leibl: Lady con Ivonne at the miracle Rina Franchetti: Mother of the Lying Children of the miracle Aurelio Nardi: Uncle of Lying Children of the miracle Giovanna Busetti: Maria, Lying Child of the miracle Massimo Busetti: Dario, Lying Child of the miracle Romolo Giordani PEOPLE AT VIA VENETO: Nello Meniconi: Wrangler Via Veneto Gloria Hendry April Hennessy Teresa Tsao Angela Wilson Giovanni Querrel Giulio Citti Noel Sheldon |
| Note: | Marcello Mastroianni and Anita Ekberg star in Federico Fellini's best-loved masterpiece, which was awarded a Best Foreign Film Oscar and the Palme D'Or. Filming started on 16 March 1959. La Dolce Vita explores the life of a gossipy newspaper columnist who becomes involved in the decadent lifestyles of Roman society in the 1960s. Nico appears in six scenes, the first one, scene 38, Via Veneto, night, [01h:52:00 into the film] where Marcello spots Nico and she tries to get a lift and gets inside Oliviero's Jaguar the younger brother of Don Giulio, her fiancé.
the second one, scene 39, on the road to Bassano di Sutri, where she is in Oliviero's Jaguar speaking 'Eskimo' to Marcello; the third one, scene 40, at the Odescalshi Palace of Bassano di Sutri, 42 kms from Roma on the Via Cassia, (shot 11 May 1959) where Prince Mascalchi (played by prince Zadam Wolkonsky) offers his fiancée Nico (Nico 'Otzak') a pearl necklace. Nico and her fiancé Don Giulio are embracing. She laughs and Giulio hits her coldly, sadistically, on the back of the neck. The fourth one, scene 41, in the terrace of the old villa a strange procession is passing — the guest in their evening clothes and carrying lighted candelabra are following the American woman, Jane, on the way to the old villa. We see Giulio and Nico, Oliviero, Irene, the lawyer, the English medium (played by Lady Rosemary Rennell-Rodd) and Don Giovanni, the Prince grandson (played by Count Ivenda Dobrzensky), Joan Antequera, Donna Doris Pignatelli, and at the end, the prince. They're looking for ghosts. The fifth one, scene 42, at the old villa of Bassano di Sutri. With Jane, Joan Antequera, Giulio, Count Ivenda Dobrzensky, Lily, Irene, the Prince, Lady Rosemary Rennell-Rodd, Countess Cristina Paolizi, Federica, where Nico wears a knight's helmet over her head. She says to Giulio, "I am your ancestor, Giulio, I am your ancestor". The sixth one, scene 43, in the park of Bassano di Sutri, morning. With Irene, Jane, Marcello, Jane's son, the Prince's mother, the prince, Oliviero, Giulio. Nico says, "Let's go and eat spaghetti!". Filming ended late August 1959. Part of La Dolce Vita was shot on location in Roma, the seaside resort of Fregene (in July and August), but other scenes were shot on a huge Cinecitta set fancifully designed by Piero Gherardi (costume and set designs), for example the scene set in a baroque (and imaginary) nightclub in the Baths of Caracalli; a recreation of Via Veneto that was a marvel of exactitude except for one little thing: Via Veneto rose upward from Piazza Barberini to the gateway of the Villa Borghese gardens. The Via Veneto of the film (built on Number 5 stage) was flat, a circumstance that bothered Fellini not at all; and the narrow, winding staircase to the dome of Saint Peter's. |
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