1960
Script
Marcello is a journalist who writes for a magazine mundane items, which include people and events known in the Via Veneto. The professional activity led him to adopt a way of life very similar to that of his characters. Thus, he goes with indifference by a relationship to the next: while he lives with Emma does not give up any more adventures. He has a temporary relationship with Maddalena, young and rich, bored of life, always in search of sensations. The arrival of Sylvie, a famous American actress, provides the opportunity for new emotional experiences. For professional duty Marcello deals with a false apparition of the Virgin Mary, invented by two children at the instigation of the parents. Attend a party organized by some members of the nobility that gives way to ascertain the low moral of that environment. Marcello is a friend of Steiner, an intellectual who combines in his living room artists and writers. The happy family life of his friend and caresses favorably impresses the idea of marrying Emma to start with her a smoother life and more calm. But some time after Marcello learns that Steiner, in a fit of despair, he killed himself, after deletion of his two children. To overcome the horror aroused in him a tragic fact, Marcello, throws, without any restraint, in the whirl of social life. After a riot that left all weariness and disgust, Marcello accidentally meets a young girl on the beach by the clear-eyed and innocent, and tries in vain to understand what she says, a channel divides them and grabs his words, so he follows his seedy friends. Adriano Celentano plays himself, successful rock singer, who performs at a party at the Baths of Caracalla. Approached by Anita Ekberg, he continues to sing and dance with her. For Adriano Celentano it is his an extraordinary debut with the great Federico Fellini.