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Fellini's "La Strada"

Fellini's "La Strada"

La Strada di Fellini

Itineraries

Piazza Trento e Trieste (Bagnoregio), Anthony Quinn in una scena de La Strada di Federico Fellini (1954). Foto: Archivio Tuscia Film Fest

Bagnoregio and Civita

Over the years, Bagnoregio and Civita di Bagnoregio have often been chosen as a film set. Thanks to Fellini and his director of production Luigi Giacosi (who was born here) La strada (1954), Fellini's masterpiece which won the Silver Lion at the 15th edition (1954) of the Venice Film Festival and the Academy Award as best foreign film in 1956,...
Piazza delle Erbe (Viterbo), la scena iniziale de I Vitelloni di Federico Fellini (1953). Foto: Archivio Tuscia Film Fest

I Vitelloni and other stories

During his long career, Federico Fellini often chose Tuscia as a filming location. His first movie, Variety Lights (1950) - that he directed together with Alberto Lattuada - was partially filmed in Capranica. His third movie, I Vitelloni (1953) - which managed to revive the careers, until then unsuccessful, of both the director and the actor...
Piazza del Plebiscito (Viterbo), Christopher Abbott e Austin Stowell sul set di Catch-22 di George Clooney, Grant Heslov, Ellen Kuras (2019). Foto: Philippe Antonello

Viterbo

Since the first decades of the 1900s, Viterbo has been the ideal location for cinematographic productions. Over time, numerous film directors have chosen Viterbo: from the pioneer of silent movies Silvio Laurenti Rosa - born in Viterbo – who shot here some sequences of his anti-communist melodrama Katiuscia (1923), to the actor and film director...