I VITELLONI

Year: 1953
UK: BFI (Access)
Cast: Franco Interlenghi, Alberto Sordi, Franco Fabrizi, Leopoldo Trieste, Riccardo Fellini, Eleonora Ruffo, Jean Brochard, Claude Farell, Carlo Romano, Enrico Viarisio, Paola Borboni, Lida Baarova, Arlette Sauvage, Vira Silenti, Maja Nipora, Achille Majeroni, Guido Martufi, Silvio Bagolini, Giovanna Galli, Franca Gandolfi, Gigetta Morano, Gondrano Trucchi, Gustavo De Nardo, Grazia De Rocca, Alberto Anselmi, Milvia Chianelli
Director: Federico Fellini
Countries: Italy / France
Language: Italian (English subtitles)
UK: 107 mins
UK Certificate: PG contains mild sex references
UK Release Date: 30 July 2004 (Limited Release - London)

Synopsis

Fausto (Franco Fabrizi), leader of a gang of shiftless young men in a small Italian seaside town, is forced by his father to marry Sandra (Eleonora Ruffo) when it is discovered that she is pregnant. In addition, he is obliged to take a job as assistant in an antique shop. Fausto and his friends persist in their aimless ways - lounging, playing billiards, discussing the possibility of going to Milan and getting a job - and Fausto himself continues his career as a small-town Casanova.

Sandra allows herself to be persuaded that he is innocent, but at last she realises he has been unfaithful and leaves home with their baby. Remorsefully, Fausto searches for her and finally finds her at his father's house. They are reconciled - at least temporarily - but Sandra's brother Moraldo (Franco Interlenghi), also a member of the gang, is provoked by these happenings to some sort of action, and he leaves for the city.