Variety Lights
1951 film / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Variety Lights (Italian: Luci del varietà) is a 1951 Italian romantic drama film produced, directed and written by Federico Fellini and Alberto Lattuada and starring Peppino De Filippo, Carla Del Poggio, and Giulietta Masina. The film is about a beautiful and ambitious young woman who joins a traveling troupe of third-rate vaudevillians and inadvertently causes jealousy and emotional crises. A collaboration with Alberto Lattuada in production, direction, and writing, Variety Lights launched Fellini's directorial career. Prior to this film, Fellini worked primarily as a screenwriter, most notably working on Roberto Rossellini’s Rome, Open City.
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Directed by | Federico Fellini Alberto Lattuada |
Screenplay by | Federico Fellini Alberto Lattuada Tullio Pinelli Ennio Flaiano |
Story by | Federico Fellini |
Produced by | Federico Fellini Alberto Lattuada |
Starring | Peppino De Filippo Carla Del Poggio Giulietta Masina |
Cinematography | Otello Martelli |
Edited by | Mario Bonotti |
Production company | Capitolium |
Distributed by | Fincine |
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Running time | 97 minutes |
Country | Italy |
Language | Italian |
In 2008, the film was included on the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage’s 100 Italian films to be saved, a list of 100 films that "have changed the collective memory of the country between 1942 and 1978."[1]