Giunti Odeon presents one of Federico Fellini's greatest masterpieces, an Oscar-winning film. Exactly twenty years after telling the story of an escape from the provinces in I vitelloni, the author returns to that small world, reconstructing the environments of his adolescence in Cinecittà and Ostia. The family we see re-evoked in the film is that of his childhood friend Titta Benzi, and around him teems a humanity described with sanguine hues and grotesque lines (above all the representatives of the institutions, the clergy and the fascist hierarchs), with tender sensuality (Gradisca) and an irony at once affectionate and biting. The vitality of the figures that populate the film (including the outcast nymphomaniac Volpina) conceals an underground, deep melancholy. The small Romagnolo village of the 1930s sums up one of the most penetrating images of Italy according to Fellini: a small immature and conformist world, succumbing to a boorish and mystifying regime, or sadly powerless in the face of its violence.