This feature-length 2002 documentary by Damian Pettigrew’s tracks the life and career of director Federico Fellini through his often contradictory statements. As Fellini said in the quote that gives the documentary its title: “I’m a born liar. For me, the things that are the most real are the ones I invented.”
Up Next in Fellini in His Own Words
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Federico Fellini’s Autobiography
For this 2000 documentary, Paquito Del Bosco was given total access to the RAI (Italian television) archives’ holdings of interviews with Federico Fellini. Italian film critic Tullio Kezich writes, “The project is a precious contribution to our understanding of the director and his genius.”
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At Home with Federico Fellini
In this 1987 interview for Italian television, director Federico Fellini discusses the importance of Franz Kafka’s novel “Amerika” to the making of INTERVISTA.
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Gideon Bachmann Interviews with Feder...
Critic Gideon Bachmann was a friend and intellectual sparring partner of Federico Fellini’s for over thirty years. As a radio broadcaster and then a filmmaker, he interviewed Fellini and many of those who knew him at length. What resulted is an oral biography of the great director.
