As we mentioned before, ours is not the first Virtual Via Veneto. Although we have spent much of this evening sat on the Virtual Via Veneto, watching federico Fellini shoot a sequence for his superb film La Dolce Vita, we may have thought that all the filming was to be done here. This is, however, not the case.
Slighly left of centre in the picture above we see Federico Fellino directing
a sequence from La Dolce Vita on the Via Veneto in Rome (you can see this
sequence here on the Virtual
Via Veneto). Neverteless, this is not the real Via Veneto, it is a virtual
one created by Federico Fellini in the Cinecitta studios in Rome in 1959.
Federico beat our Virtual Via Veneto by 38 years!
Fellini was finding that people like you or I were disturbing the filming too much - also the lighting quality that could be achieved was only suitable for some shots. The answer therefore was to recreate a whole stretch of the Via in the studio. When we watch the film it is very hard to tell where the real ends and the virtual begins...
Here is a brief list of some of the key actors and artists involved in the production of this film. In other places you can find even more detailed information.
| Cast | | |
| Lex Barker | Robert | |
| Alain Cuny | Steiner | |
| Anouk Aimee | Maddalena | |
| Anita Ekberg | Sylvia | |
| Yvonne Furneaux | Emma | |
| Riccardo Garrone | Riccardo | |
| Nadia Gray | Nadia | |
| Marcello Mastroianni | Marcello Rubini | |
| Magali Noel | Fanny | |
| Annibale Ninchi | Marcello's father | |
| Walter Santesso | Paparazzo | |
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| Written by | ||
| Federico Fellini, Ennio Flaiano, Tullio Pinelli and Brunello Rondi | ||
| Cinematography by | ||
| Otello Martelli | ||
| Music by | ||
| Nino Rota | ||
Last Updated 6th of May 1997
