Starring Marcello Mastroianni
8 Episodes
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 and the humane drama of A SPECIAL DAY, Mastroianni embodies, perhaps more than any other performer, the soul of Italian cinema.
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1:41:45Episode 1Le notti bianche
Episode 1
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 2
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 3Divorce Italian Style
Episode 3
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 4
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 5The Organizer
Episode 5
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 6A Slightly Pregnant Man
Episode 6
Directed by Jacques Demy • 1973 • France
In this surreal comedy from Jacques Demy, Marcello Mastroianni plays a driving school instructor who, complaining of strange discomforts, learns he is four months pregnant. A frenzy of complications, scrutiny and celebrity ensues.
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1:47:00Episode 7A Special Day
Episode 7
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 8One Hundred and One Nights
Episode 8
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...
