Variety Lights

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Variety Lights
Directed by Federico Fellini
Alberto Lattuada
Produced by Federico Fellini
Alberto Lattuada
Starring Peppino De Filippo
Giulietta Masina
Carla Del Poggio
Franca Valeri
John Kitzmiller
Cinematography Otello Martelli
Editing by Mario Bonotti
Release date(s) Flag of Italy Dec 6, 1950
Running time 97 min
Country Italy
Language Italian
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Variety Lights (Italian: Luci del varietà) is a 1950 Italian film directed and produced by Federico Fellini.

The film launched Fellini's directorial career, but was a collaboration (in production, direction, and screenwriting) with Alberto Lattuada. Up until that time, Fellini been primarily a screenwriter (most notably working on Roberto Rossellini’s Rome, Open City), while Lattuada was already an established and respected director of neorealist films and literary adaptations.

Variety Lights is a bittersweet drama about a group of second-rate theatrical performers on tour. The actors, dancers, and performers struggle to make money from town to town, playing to minimal crowds, while the aging manager of the company falls in love with a newcomer, to the chagrin of his faithful mistress, played by Fellini's real-life wife, Giulietta Masina.


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Federico Fellini

Variety Lights (1950) • The White Sheik (1951) • I Vitelloni (1953) • L'Amore in Città (1953) • La Strada (1954) • Il bidone (1955) • Nights of Cabiria (1957) • La Dolce Vita (1960) • Boccaccio '70 (1962) • (1963) • Juliet of the Spirits (1965) • Satyricon (1969) • I Clowns (1970) • Roma (1972) • Amarcord (1973) • Fellini's Casanova (1976) • Prova d'orchestra (1979) • City of Women (1980) • And the Ship Sails On (1983) • Ginger and Fred (1986) • Intervista (1987) • La voce della luna (1990)

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