Considered Fellini’s absolute masterpiece, I VITELLONI directly influenced films like ‘Mean Streets’, ‘American Graffiti’, ‘Diner’ and other bunch-of-guys-hanging-out, coming of age movies. Autobiographical and set in the director's seaside hometown of Rimini, it shows a clique of male friends who won’t or can't grow up. Close to their 30s, mostly unemployed, they are the Vitelloni of the title, killing time from bar to beach, as they seek to spice up their uneventful provincial lives.

One of them, Moraldo (Franco Interlenghi), serving as Fellini's alter ego, finally breaks free and leaves for Rome. The concluding farewell sequences considered one of the most poignant in cinema. Rooted in Italian neo-realism, Fellini is already announcing his fantastical, carnivalesque cinema of weirdness! I VITELLONI is the springboard of his career and his future worldwide reputation - yet rarely revived until this new HD restored and re-graded CultFilms special edition for the 1st time on Bluray.

Special Features:

• New HD restoration and re-grading with additional further restoration uniquely for CultFilms
• New improved English subtitles
• Unique, especially commissioned Video Essay by Oxford Prof. Guido Bonsaver "Becoming Fellini"