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The city of IL VIGILE

The city of IL VIGILE

La città de IL VIGILE

Itineraries

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...