Many more would later follow: eight nominations and four Oscars in the best foreign language film category. His collaboration on the screenplay for the neo-realist classic Rome, Open City (1945) by Roberto Rossellini was immediately rewarded with an Oscar nomination. And with his 'truly Italian' films, Fellini has inspired audiences around the world.įellini began his work at the end of the 1930s as a cartoonist, then wrote for the radio, worked as a gag writer and then finally began in film, initially as a screenwriter. Both there and in the Italian countryside, he created and invented his very own world, letting his characters live and die there. Rome ultimately became the second home of the film director.
Federico Fellini, born in Rimini on the Adriatic Coast on January 20, 1920, did not want to leave his homeland.
