Costanzo Costantini. Federico Fellini

The greatest film director of the 20th century, a prominent representative of Italian neorealism and its gravedigger, Federico Fellini (1920-1993) gave interviews to his friend, journalist Costanzo Costantini, for more than twenty years. These frank conversations form a richly personal and creative biography of the creator of such masterpieces of world cinema as "Nights of Cabiria," "La Dolce Vita," "Eight and a Half," "Juliet of the Spirits," "Amarcord," "Orchestra Rehearsal," "City of Women," and others. Moreover, these conversations—behind the mask of the paradoxical man, the fantasist, the liar, the Rabelaisian that Fellini was known or wanted to be—reveal a highly intelligent man, a witty and sober observer of life, a philosopher, a staunch opponent of the "drug culture" and its famous apologists and seducers, to which he contrasts the "culture of life." Conversations with the book's hero will undoubtedly bring pleasure to the thoughtful reader.