Federico Fellini’s semi-autobiographical comedy-drama follows Titta (Bruno Zanin), an adolescent boy growing up among an eccentric cast of characters in the fictional town of Borgo (based on Fellini’s hometown of Rimini) in 1930s Fascist Italy. Drifting through the seasons, Amarcord (meaning ‘nostalgic revocation’) charts coming-of-age in the shadow of Mussolini with a wonderfully eclectic ensemble – culminating in an evocative wintertime denouement.
Recipient of the Best Foreign Language Film at the 1975 Academy Awards, this complex, extravagant journey through history on the Italian coast is ample evidence of Fellini as one of the most visionary filmmakers in cinema history.