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Ginger and Fred

Country: Italy, Language: Italian, 125 mins

Original Title

Ginger e Fred
  • Director: Federico Fellini
  • Writer: Federico Fellini; Tonino Guerra
  • Producer: Alberto Grimaldi; Heinz Bibo

CGiii Comment

3 minutes of laborious opening credits...not a great start...hey, it's Fellini!

If you can accept the unacceptable over-dubbing, if you can by-pass the sledge-hammer direction, if you can ignore the sub-standard acting and ridiculous characterisations...then, this Fellini film may be even watchable.

This is nonsense.


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The(ir) Blurb...

Amelia and Pippo are reunited after several decades to perform their old music-hall act (imitating Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers) on a TV variety show. It's both a touchingly nostalgic journey into the past, and a viciously satirical attack on television in general and Italian TV in particular, portraying it as a mindless freakshow aimed at morons.

Cast & Characters

Giulietta Masina as Amelia Bonetti / Ginger;
Marcello Mastroianni as Pippo Botticella / Fred;
Franco Fabrizi as Show host;
Friedrich von Ledebur as Admiral Aulenti;
Augusto Poderosi as Transvestite;
Martin Maria Blau as Assistant director;
Jacques Henri Lartigue as Brother Gerolamo;
Toto Mignone as Toto;
Ezio Marano as The Intellectual;
Antoine Saint-John as Bandaged man;
Friedrich von Thun as Kidnapped Industrialist;
Antonino Iuorio as TV Inspector;
Barbara Scoppa as Journalist;
Elisabetta Flumeri as Journalist;
Salvatore Billa as Clark Gable