TY - BOOK AU - Federico Fellini AU - Federico Fellini AU - Ennio Flaiano AU - Tullio Pinelli AU - Alberto Sordi AU - Franco Fabrizi AU - Franco Interlenghi TI - I Vitelloni AV - PN1997 .V584 1953 PY - 1953/// CY - Italy, France PB - Cité Films, Peg-Films N1 - Special features include: - Vitellonismo: an exclusive documentary featuring interviews with late actor Leopoldo Trieste, actor Franco Interlenghi, assistant director Moraldo Rossi, Fellini biographer Tullio Kezich, Fellini friend Vincenzo Mollica, and director of the Fellini Foundation, Vittorio Boarini N2 - From case cover: Five young men linger in a postadolescent limbo, dreaming of adventure and escape from their small seacoast town. They while away their time spending the lira doled out by their indulgent families on drink. women, and nights at the local pool hall. Federico Fellini's second solo directional effort (originally released in the U.S. as The Young and The Passionate) is a semiautobiographical masterpiece of sharply drawn character sketches: Skirt chaser Faysto, forced to marry a girl he has impreganted; Alberto, the perpetual child; Leopoldo, a writer thirsting for frame; and Moraldo, the only member of the group troubled by a moral conscience. An international success and recipient of an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay, I Vitelloni compassionately details a year in the life of a group of small-town layabouts struggling to find meaning in their lives ER -