FELLINI, FEDERICO

born January 20, 1920, Rimini, Italy died October 31, 1993, Rome Italian film director who was one of the most celebrated and distinctive filmmakers of the period after World War II. Early in his career he helped inaugurate the Neorealist cinema movement, but he soon developed his own distinctive style of typically autobiographical films that imposed dreamlike or hallucinatory imagery upon ordinary situations and portrayed people at their most bizarre. Additional reading Peter Bondanella and Cristina Degli-Esposti (eds.), Perspectives on Federico Fellini (1993). Peter Bondanella, The Cinema of Federico Fellini (1992); Costanzo Costantini (ed.), Conversations with Fellini (1996).