This scene, found among early film elements of AMARCORD, has no sound and was apparently cut from the film. It is described, however, in the novelization published by Rizzoli in 1973 and involves the contessa’s loss of a diamond ring down her toilet. Carlini, or “Eau de cologne,” the man who empties the town’s cesspits, is called to retrieve it.
Directed by Federico Fellini • 1973 • France, Italy
This carnivalesque portrait of provincial Italy during the fascist period, the most personal film from Federico Fellini, satirizes the director's youth and turns daily life into a circus of social rituals, adolescent desires, male fantasies, an...
Recorded in 2006, this commentary features film studies professors Peter Brunette and Frank Burke (Burke is also the author of the book Fellini’s Films).