Marcello Mastroianni at 100
15 Episodes
Born one hundred years ago this September, Marcello Mastroianni made being a movie star look effortless, wearing his suave good looks and worldly sophistication with a sly, self-deprecating lightness that was perhaps only matched by his American counterpart, Cary Grant. Though he will forever be remembered for his immortal collaborations with Federico Fellini—who cast the actor as his alter ego in his masterpiece 8½—Mastroianni left behind a staggering body of indelible performances for major directors like Luchino Visconti (LE NOTTI BIANCHE), Michelangelo Antonioni (LA NOTTE), and Mario Monicelli (THE ORGANIZER). An actor of virtuosic versatility who was equally at home in the zesty farce of DIVORCE ITALIAN STYLE, in the humane drama of A SPECIAL DAY, and parodying his own image in WE ALL LOVED EACH OTHER SO MUCH, Mastroianni embodies, perhaps more than any other performer, the soul of Italian cinema.
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2:55:49Episode 1La dolce vita
Episode 1
Directed by Federico Fellini • 1960 • Italy
Starring Marcello Mastroianni, Anita Ekberg, Anouk AiméeThe biggest hit from the most popular Italian filmmaker of all time, LA DOLCE VITA rocketed Federico Fellini to international mainstream success—ironically, by offering a damning critique of the ...
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2:04:52Episode 2We All Loved Each Other So Much
Episode 2
Directed by Ettore Scola • 1974 • Italy
Starring Nino Manfredi, Vittorio Gassman, Stefania SandrelliThis beloved classic of commedia all’italiana is a beautifully bittersweet tale of friendship, nostalgia, and cinema. Over the course of thirty years, we follow the lives of three friends—Antonio...
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1:41:45Episode 3Marriage Italian Style
Episode 3
Directed by Vittorio De Sica • 1964 • Italy, France
Starring Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Aldo PuglisiMarcello Mastroianni and Sophia Loren cemented their status as one of the all-time great screen couples in Vittorio De Sica’s classic battle-of-the-sexes farce. He’s Domenico, a suave, b...
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1:43:02Episode 4Il bell’Antonio
Episode 4
Directed by Mauro Bolognini • 1960 • Italy, France
Starring Marcello Mastroianni, Claudia Cardinale, Pierre BrasseurScripted by Pier Paolo Pasolini, IL BELL’ANTONIO is a barbed, melodramatic satire of religion, sex, and society that gives Marcello Mastroianni a chance to play slyly against his ...
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1:41:45Episode 5Le notti bianche
Episode 5
Directed by Luchino Visconti • 1957 • Italy
Starring Marcello Mastroianni, Maria SchellMarcello Mastroianni, as a lonely city transplant, and Maria Schell, as a sheltered girl haunted by a lover’s promise, meet by chance on a canal bridge and begin a tentative romance that quickly entangles the...
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La notte
Episode 6
Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni • 1961 • Italy
Starring Marcello Mastroianni, Jeanne Moreau, Monica VittiThis psychologically acute, visually striking modernist work was director Michelangelo Antonioni’s follow-up to the epochal L’AVVENTURA. Marcello Mastroianni and Jeanne Moreau star as a n...
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1:44:52Episode 7Divorce Italian Style
Episode 7
Directed by Pietro Germi • 1961 • Italy
Starring Marcello Mastroianni, Stefania Sandrelli, Daniela RoccaBaron Ferdinando Cefalù (Marcello Mastroianni) longs to marry his nubile young cousin Angela (Stefania Sandrelli), but one obstacle stands in his way: his fatuous and fawning wife, Rosalia (D...
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8½
Episode 8
Directed by Federico Fellini • 1963 • Italy
Marcello Mastroianni plays Guido Anselmi, a director whose new project is collapsing around him, along with his life. One of the greatest films about film ever made, Federico Fellini's 8 1/2 (Otto e mezzo) turns one man's artistic crisis into a grand e...
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2:09:54Episode 9The Organizer
Episode 9
Directed by Mario Monicelli • 1963 • France, Yugoslavia, Italy
Starring Marcello Mastroianni, Renato Salvatori, Annie GirardotIn turn-of-the-twentieth-century Turin, an accident in a textile factory incites workers to stage a walkout. But it’s not until they receive unexpected aid from a travel...
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1:36:20Episode 10A Slightly Pregnant Man
Episode 10
Directed by Jacques Demy • 1973 • France
Starring Marcello Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve, Micheline PresleFeeling out of sorts, Marco (Marcello Mastroianni), an Italian driving instructor living in Paris, pays a visit to the doctor, who promptly diagnoses him as . . . four months pregnant. It’...
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1:47:00Episode 11A Special Day
Episode 11
Directed by Ettore Scola • 1977 • Italy
Starring Sophia Loren, Marcello MastroianniItalian cinema dream team Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni are cast against glamorous type and deliver two of the finest performances of their careers in this moving, quietly subversive drama from Ettore Sco...
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1:45:15Episode 12One Hundred and One Nights
Episode 12
Directed by Agnès Varda • 1995 • France
Starring Michel Piccoli, Marcello Mastroianni, Henri GarcinA celebration of cinema’s centennial, ONE HUNDRED AND ONE NIGHTS finds Agnès Varda at her most playful. It is also perhaps her unlikeliest project: a star-studded comic fantasy with an extravagant...
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1:58:39Episode 13Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Episode 13
Directed by Vittorio De Sica • 1963 • Italy, France
Starring Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Aldo GiuffrèWinner of the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar at the 1964 Academy Awards, YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW is a sparklingly original comedy that casts Marcello Mastroianni and Sophia Loren...
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1:46:45Episode 14Big Deal on Madonna Street
Episode 14
Directed by Mario Monicelli • 1958 • Italy
Starring Vittorio Gassman, Renato Salvatori, Memmo CarotenutoAn all-star cast and jazzy score highlight this charming comedy, a deft satire of classic caper films like RIFIFI. BIG DEAL ON MADONNA STREET hilariously details the plight of a sad-sack grou...
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3:14:00Episode 15Marcello Mastroianni: I Remember
Episode 15
Directed by Anna Maria Tatò • 1997 • Italy
Starring Marcello MastroianniItalian-cinema icon Marcello Mastroianni starred in more than a hundred films over the course of his astonishing, half-century career, though he will perhaps always be best remembered for the six masterpieces he made with F...
