The Clowns (film) - Alchetron, The Free Social Encyclopedia

I clowns (also known as The Clowns) is a 1970 film by Federico Fellini about the human fascination with clowns and circuses.

Production

The film was made for the Italian TV station RAI with an agreement that it would be released simultaneously as a cinema feature. RAI and co-producer Leone Film compromised on its release, with RAI broadcasting it on Christmas Day, 1970, and Leone Film releasing it theatrically in Italy the following day, December 26, 1970.

It is a docufiction: part reality, part fantasy. The film has sometimes been referred to as the first mockumentary in film history, although 1964's A Hard Day's Night may have a superior claim to that distinction. Being documentary and fiction in one, The Clowns distinguishes itself by being a mockumentary with unique characteristics, not the least of which is reflecting Fellini's own increasing fascination with how documentary films reflect "reality". Fellini would further explore this semi-fictional documentary genre in 1972's Fellini's Roma and 1987's Intervista, both of which contain unreliable depictions of Fellini himself making the film within the film narrative.

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Riccardo Billi as Himself – Italian Clown (credited as Billi)

Federico Fellini as Himself

Gigi Reder as Himself – Italian Clown (credited as Reder)

Tino Scotti as Himself – Italian Clown (credited as Scotti)

Valentini as Himself – Italian Clown

Fanfulla as Himself – Italian Clown

Merli as Himself – Italian Clown

Carlo Rizzo as Himself – Italian Clown (credited as Rizzo)

Colombaioni as Themselves – Italian Clowns (credited as I 4 Colombaioni)

Pistoni as Himself – Italian Clown

Martana as Themselves – Italian Clowns (credited as I Martana)

Giacomo Furia as Himself – Italian Clown (credited as Furia)

Alvaro Vitali as Himself (The Troupe)

Dante Maggio as Himself – Italian Clown (credited as Maggio)

Galliano Sbarra as Himself – Italian Clown (credited as Sbarra)

Peppino Janigro as Himself – Italian Clown (credited as Janigro)

Carini as Himself – Italian Clown

Maunsell as Himself – Italian Clown

Nino Terzo as Himself – Italian Clown (credited as Terzo)

Osiride Pevarello as Clown (Credited as Peverello)

Nino Vingelli as Himself – Italian Clown (credited as Vingelli)

Alberto Sorrentino as Himself – Italian Clown (credited as Sorrentino)

Fumagalli as Himself – Italian Clown

Valdemaro as Himself – Italian Clown

Luigi Zerbinati as Himself – Italian Clown (credited as Zerbinati)

Ettore Bevilacqua as Himself – Italian Clown (credited as Bevilacqua)

Maya Morin as Maya (La troupe)

Anna Lina Alberti as Herself – Alvaro's mother (La troupe) (credited as Lina Alberti)

Gasparin as Gasparino (La troupe)

Alex asHimself – French Clown

Georges Loriot as Himself – French Clown (credited as Père Loriot)

Maïs as Himself – French Clown

Bario as Himself – French Clown

Ludo as Himself – French Clown

Nino as Himself – French Clown

Charlie Rivel as Himself

Pierre Étaix as Himself

Annie Fratellini as Herself

Victor Fratellini as Himself

Jean-Baptiste Thiérrée as Himself (credited as Baptiste)

Tristan Remy as Himself

Liana Orfei as Herself

Rinaldo Orfei as Himself

Nando Orfei as Himself

Franco Migliorini as Himself – Animal Tamer

Anita Ekberg as Herself

Cameo/Uncredited

Maria Grazia Buccella as Herself

Aristide Caporale as Railwayman

Victoria Chaplin as Herself

Liliana Chiari as Herself

Dante Cleri as Fascist

Shirley Corrigan as Audience member

Feverello as Himself – Italian Clown

Gustavo Fratellini as Himself – Italian Clown

Adelina Poerio as Dwarf nun

References

I clowns Wikipedia

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