8½ (Original title)La bella confusione (Working title)Huit et demi (Alternative title)8½ di Federico Fellini (Alternative title)Otto e mezzo (Alternative title)Eight and a Half (Help search title)8 1/2 (Help search title)
Date: 14 February 1963 (Release)Countries: Italy, FranceDirector: Federico Fellini
Synopsis: Drama. Guido Anselmi, a film director is besieged by sycophants and collaborators as he struggles to complete an ambitious science-fiction film.
Genre: Drama
Subjects: Creativity, Filmmaking
Releases
Date: 1963Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - SoundAspect ratio: 1.85:1Runtime: 138 mins 4 secs - Length: 12426 FeetDialogue (original): Italian / Dialogue (original): French / Dialogue (original): GermanDistributor: Gala Film Distributors
Date: 14 February 1963Country: ItalyRelease type: TheatricalFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundAspect ratio: 1.85:1Dialogue (original): Italian / Dialogue (original): French / Dialogue (original): English
Date: 14 February 1963Country: ItalyRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 138 mins Length: 12450 FeetLanguage: Italian
Date: October 2013Country: United KingdomRelease type: InternetFormat: not specified - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 138 mins Dialogue (original): Italian / Dialogue (original): ItalianDistributor: BFIPlayer
Date: 2023Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundDialogue (original): Italian
Date: 14 February 1963 (Release)Countries: Italy, FranceDirector: Federico Fellini
Synopsis: Drama. Guido Anselmi, a film director is besieged by sycophants and collaborators as he struggles to complete an ambitious science-fiction film.
Genre: Drama
Subjects: Creativity, Filmmaking
Releases
Date: 1963Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - SoundAspect ratio: 1.85:1Runtime: 138 mins 4 secs - Length: 12426 FeetDialogue (original): Italian / Dialogue (original): French / Dialogue (original): GermanDistributor: Gala Film Distributors
Date: 14 February 1963Country: ItalyRelease type: TheatricalFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundAspect ratio: 1.85:1Dialogue (original): Italian / Dialogue (original): French / Dialogue (original): English
Date: 14 February 1963Country: ItalyRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 138 mins Length: 12450 FeetLanguage: Italian
Date: October 2013Country: United KingdomRelease type: InternetFormat: not specified - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 138 mins Dialogue (original): Italian / Dialogue (original): ItalianDistributor: BFIPlayer
Date: 2023Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundDialogue (original): Italian
Credits
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Production Company: Cineriz di Angelo Rizzoli, Production Company: Francinex, Created by (Ideato da): Federico Fellini, Produced by/Presented by: Angelo Rizzoli, Unit Manager: Mario Basili, Production Manager: Nello Meniconi, Production Supervisor: Clemente Fracassi, Production Secretary: Albino Morandin, Angelo Iacono, 2nd Unit Director: Alessandro von Normann, Artistic Collaborator: Brunello Rondi, Assistant Director: Guidarino Guidi, 2nd Assistant Director: Giulio Paradisi, Francesco Aluigi, Continuity: Mirella Gamacchio, Screenplay: Federico Fellini, Screenplay: Tullio Pinelli, Screenplay: Ennio Flaiano, Screenplay: Brunello Rondi, Story: Federico Fellini, Ennio Flaiano, Director of Photography: Gianni Di Venanzo, Camera Operator: Pasqualino De Santis, Still Photographer: Tazio Secchiaroli, Editor: Leo Catozzo, Assistant Editor: Adriana Olasio, Art Director: Piero Gherardi, Assistant Art Director: Luciano Ricceri, Set Dresser: Vito Anzalone, Costumes: Piero Gherardi, Assistant Costumes: Orietta Nasalli Rocca, Wardrobe Mistress: Clara Poggi, Key Make-up: Otello Fava, Hairstyles: Renata Magnanti, Hairdresser: Eugenia, Filippo, Colour Grader: Enzo Verzini, Music: Nino Rota, Sound: Mario Faraoni, Alberto Bartolomei, Music Publisher: CAM, Prints/Processing: Istituto Nazionale LUCE, Negatives: Dupont, Music Publisher: CAM, Script Translator: Eugene Walter, Studio: Titanus-Appia
Cast
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Marcello Mastroianni (Guido Anselmi, the director), Claudia Cardinale (Claudia, the star-actress), Anouk Aimée (Luisa Anselmi, Guido's wife), Sandra Milo (Carla, Guido's mistress), Rossella Falk (Rossella, Luisa's friend), Barbara Steele (Gloria Morin, Mario's fiancée), Madeleine Lebeau (Madeleine, French actress), Caterina Boratto (unnamed woman in harem), Edra Gale (Saraghina), Guido Alberti (Commendatore Pace, the producer), Mario Conocchia (Conocchia, production manager), Bruno Agostini (Agostini, 2nd production secretary), Cesare Miceli Picardi (Cesarino, 1st production secretary), Jean Rougeul (Fabrizio Carini, film critic), Mario Pisu (Mario Mezzabotta, Gloria's friend), Yvonne Casadei (Jacqueline Bon Bon, ageing soubrette), Ian Dallas (Maurice, the mind-reader), Mino Doro (Claudia's agent, 'Super Tarzan'), Nadine Sanders (Nadine, air hostess), Georgia Simmons (Guido's grandmother), Hedy Vessel (Hedy, harem woman with costume changes), Tito Masini (the cardinal), Annie Gorassini (producer's girlfriend), Rossella Como (Tilde, Luisa & Rossella's friend), Mark Herron (Luisa's timid admirer), Marisa Colomber (Guido's aunt), Neil Robinson (French actress's agent), Elisabetta Catalano (Luisa's sister), Eugene Walter (American journalist), Hazel Rogers (dancer in Guido's harem), Gilda Dahlberg (American journalist's wife), Mario Tarchetti (Poletti, Claudia's press representative), Mary Indovino (Maya, mind-reader's partner), Frazier Rippy (the cardinal's lay secretary), Francesco Rigamonti (Enrico, Luisa's friend), Giulio Paradisi (friend), Marco Gemini (Guido as a boy at school), Giuditta Rissone (Guido's mother), Annibale Ninchi (Guido's father), John Karlsen (man in car/priest on beach), Roberto Nicolosi (doctor 1), Alfredo De La Feld (the cardinal's 1st secretary), Sebastiano Di Leandro (the cardinal's 2nd secretary), Palma Mangini (ageing relative from the country), John Stacy (the production accountant), Riccardo Guglielmi (Guido as a little boy), Roberta Valli (old man's grandchild), Maria Raimondi (Guido's 2nd aunt), Eva Gioia (Eva, girl in Cesarino's bed), Dina De Santis (Dina, girl in Cesarino's bed), Maria Tedeschi (school principal), Luciana Sanseverino (patient taking waters at the spa), Luciano Bonanni (fakir Siva announcer), Olimpia Cavalli (Miss Olympia in screen test), Maria Antonietta Beluzzi (screen test candidate for La Saraghina), Matilda Calnan (elderly journalist), Ferdinando Guillaume (clown in parade), Elisabetta Cini (the cardinal in sketches), Valentina Lang, Annarosa Lattuada, Agnese Bonfanti, Flaminia Torlonia, Anna Carimini, Maria Wertmüller (woman at spa), Giulio Calì (man with mushrooms), Antonio Acqua, Sonia Gessner (Luisa in screen-test), Edward Flemming, John Francis Lane (journalist at press conference)