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Fellini: I'm a Born Liar

6.3 105 mins Documentary   2003
ARTE   Portrait & Cie   Tele+   Dream Film   Asylum Pictures  
Director(s): Damian Pettigrew

A look at Fellini's creative process. In extensive interviews, Fellini talks a bit about his background and then discusses how he works and how he creates. Several actors, a producer, a writer, and a production manager talk about working with Fellini. Archive footage of Fellini and others on the set plus clips from his films provide commentary and illustration for the points interviewees make. Fellini is fully in charge; actors call themselves puppets. He dismisses improvisation and calls for "availability." His sets and his films create images that look like reality but are not; we see the differences and the results.

Casts of Fellini: I'm a Born Liar

Roberto Benigni

as Self - La Voce della Luna

Luigi 'Titta' Benzi

as Self - Ami d'enfance

Italo Calvino

as Self - Ecrivain (archive footage)

Dante Ferretti

as Self - Chef décorateur

Rinaldo Geleng

as Self - Peintre

Terence Stamp

as Self - Toby Dammit

Donald Sutherland

as Self - Casanova

Tullio Pinelli

as Self - Scénariste

Giuseppe Rotunno

as Self - Directeur de la photographie

Daniel Toscan du Plantier

as Self - Producteur

Federico Fellini

as Self (archive footage)

Nanni Moretti

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Claudia Cardinale

as Claudia (archive footage) (uncredited)

Alain Cuny

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Ennio Flaiano

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Ettore Manni

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Giulietta Masina

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Marcello Mastroianni

as Giuseppe Mastorna (archive footage) (uncredited)

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