Watch I Vitelloni (1953) Free Online

Release Date: 1953

Cast: Jean Brochard, Leonora Ruffo, Leopoldo Trieste, Riccardo Fellini, Claude Farell, Franco Fabrizi, Carlo Romano, Franco Interlenghi, Alberto Sordi

Categories: Movies, Indie, World cinema, Comedy-drama, Black-and-white, Comedy, Satire

I vitelloni (Italian pronunciation: [i vitelˈloni]; 1953) is an Italian comedy drama film directed by Federico Fellini. Recognized as a pivotal work in the director's artistic evolution, the film has distinct autobiographical elements that mirror important societal changes in 1950s Italy. Nominated for an Academy Award in 1958, it was Fellini's first successful motion picture after the commercial failure of his second film The White Sheik (1952), and launched the career of Alberto Sordi, one of post-war Italy's most significant and popular comedians. As summer draws to a close, a violent... MORE

I vitelloni (Italian pronunciation: [i vitelˈloni]; 1953) is an Italian comedy drama film directed by Federico Fellini. Recognized as a pivotal work in the director's artistic evolution, the film has distinct autobiographical elements that mirror important societal changes in 1950s Italy. Nominated for an Academy Award in 1958, it was Fellini's first successful motion picture after the commercial failure of his second film The White Sheik (1952), and launched the career of Alberto Sordi, one of post-war Italy's most significant and popular comedians. As summer draws to a close, a violent downpour interrupts a beach-side beauty pageant in a provincial town on the Adriatic coast. Sandra Rubini (Leonora Ruffo), elected "Miss Siren of 1953", suddenly grows upset and faints: rumours fly that she’s expecting a baby by inveterate skirt chaser Fausto Moretti (Franco Fabrizi). Under pressure from Francesco (Jean Brochard), his respectable father, Fausto agrees to a shotgun wedding. After the sparsely attended middle-class ceremony, the newlyweds leave town on their honeymoon. Unemployed and living off their parents, Fausto's twenty-something friends kill time shuffling from empty cafés to LESS