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Bookmark this pageLuci del Varietà (1950)
Director: Alberto Lattuada, Federico Fellini
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From Time Out Film Guide
Despite the shared directorial credit, there's no doubt into whose filmography this cherishable oddity fits; and more than just the parade of eccentric dreamers and melancholy misfits identifies it. In the margin of its brash and tolerably sentimental story of the punctured pretensions of a troupe of second-rate travelling music-hall players, is examined a tension between 'artist' and 'showman' that not only anticipates the subsequent polarity of critical attitudes to Fellini, but also chimes perfectly with the elements of reflexive stock-taking in Casanova.Author: PT
Cast & crew
Director: Alberto Lattuada, Federico Fellini
Producer: Alberto Lattuada, Federico Fellini
Cast: Carla Del Poggio, Peppino de Filippo, Giulietta Masina, John Kitzmiller, Folco Lulli, Franca Valeri, Carlo Romano, Silvio Bagolini full cast
Duration: 94 mins
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