Ancora Roma nel film di Fellini

Via Veneto – Trevi Fountain – Spanish Steps – Piazza del Popolo Glamour, artists, fashion: generally, this is associated with the area of Rome between Piazza dei Popolo, Fontana di Trevi and Via Veneto. Starting out from Porta Pinciana, crossing the wide, square-like space named after Federico Fellini, and proceeding down Via Veneto, one feels like stepping into the symbolic footsteps of one of the most famous Italian film of all times, La Dolce Vita (1960). Fellini’s unique representation of a society no longer believing in traditional values, tells the story of a journalist (Marcello Mastroiann) and his restless zigzagging in life, his superficial encounters in the fascinating world of glamour in the Roman of those years. In Cinecittà Fellini reconstructed exact copies of Via Veneto, its restaurants and nightclubs, where all the famous film and theater stars met, where bored aristocrats spent their nights and where “Paparazzi” were kings. The word paparazzo, now used in many languages, was coined precisely in that film. If you continue down the via della dolce vita, you cannot miss the hotel Excelsior on the left. Here Anita Ekberg returned around Rome with Marcello. In the film, the real Veneto appears empty and silent. Anita’s fiancé turns up and beats both black and blue.