Amarcord

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Amarcord
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Directed by	Federico Fellini
Produced by	Franco Cristaldi
Written by	Federico Fellini Tonino Guerra
Starring	Magali Noel Bruno Zanin Pupella Maggio Armando Brancia
Music by	Nino Rota
Cinematography	Giuseppe Rotunno
Distributed by	New World Pictures
Release date(s)	December 18, 1973 September 19, 1974
Running time	127 min.
Language	Italian
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Amarcord (1973), directed by Federico Fellini, is a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age tale that combines poignancy with bawdy comedy. It tells the story of a wild cast of characters in Fellini's home town of Rimini in 1930s Fascist pre-World War II Italy. Amarcord (a m'arcòrd) is Romagnolo dialect for Italian mi ricordo, "I remember".

[edit] Famous scenes

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Perhaps the film's most famous, or infamous scene, is the one in which a young teenaged protagonist, Titta (Bruno Zanin), becomes sexually fixated on a huge woman tobacconist who has enormous breasts (Maria Antonietta Beluzzi). One day, when being laughed at by her for trying to buy a cigarette after closing time, Titta manages to arouse the woman's interest by claiming he has enough strengh to lift her up. She dares him to try and when he does so, she's aroused. When he puts her down and goes to sit breathlessly in the corner, she exposes her giant breasts to him. She then becomes so inflamed with passion that she overwhelms small Titta with her sheer size, pressing forward and telling him to suck her big breasts. With a touch of Fellini irony, Titta's awkward efforts to desperately fondle and kiss the woman's gargantuan oncoming breasts (all the while she is lost in ecstasy), end with him being accidentally suffocated by the very objects of his deepest desire. When noticing this, she loses interest and sends him away (after giving him the cigarette for free).

[edit] Trivia

Amarcord was the first movie to be released in a letterbox version on a home video format. It was released on the SelectaVision videodisc format in January 1984, eight months before a letterbox version of Woody Allen's film Manhattan was released on Laserdisc.

Amarcord was the last movie played on HRT (Croatian Radio Television) 3rd network before service was terminated.

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Federico Fellini
Variety Lights (1950) • The White Sheik (1951) • I Vitelloni (1953) • L'Amore in Città (1953) • La Strada (1954) • Il bidone (1955) • Nights of Cabiria (1957) • La Dolce Vita (1960) • Boccaccio '70 (1962) • 8½ (1963) • Juliet of the Spirits (1965) • Satyricon (1969) • I Clowns (1970) • Roma (1972) • Amarcord (1973) • Fellini's Casanova (1976) • Prova d'orchestra (1979) • City of Women (1980) • And the Ship Sails On (1983) • Ginger and Fred (1986) • Intervista (1987) • La voce della luna (1990)

Federico Fellini

Variety Lights (1950) • The White Sheik (1951) • I Vitelloni (1953) • L'Amore in Città (1953) • La Strada (1954) • Il bidone (1955) • Nights of Cabiria (1957) • La Dolce Vita (1960) • Boccaccio '70 (1962) • 8½ (1963) • Juliet of the Spirits (1965) • Satyricon (1969) • I Clowns (1970) • Roma (1972) • Amarcord (1973) • Fellini's Casanova (1976) • Prova d'orchestra (1979) • City of Women (1980) • And the Ship Sails On (1983) • Ginger and Fred (1986) • Intervista (1987) • La voce della luna (1990)

Preceded by Day for Night	Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film 1974	Succeeded by Dersu Uzala

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