Returning to themes he first explored in La strada (1954), Fellini crafts a parable on the whisperings of the soul that only madmen and vagabonds are capable of hearing. The odd couple, Ivo Salvini (Benigni), a fake inspector of wells, and Gonnella (Villaggio), a former prefect, wander through the Emilia-Romagna countryside of Fellini's childhood and discover a dystopia of television commercials, fascism, beauty pageants, rock music, Catholicism, and pagan ritual.
Paolo Villaggio | Gonnella | |
Angelo Orlando | Nestore | |
Nadia Ottaviani | Aldina | |
Marisa Tomasi | Marisa | |
Syusy Blady | Susy | |
Dario Ghirardi | Journalist |
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