Variety Lights (1950)
December 6, 1950Release Date
Plot.
Where to Watch.
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Peppino De Filippo
Checco Dal Monte
Carla Del Poggio
Liliana 'Lilly' Antonelli
Giulietta Masina
Melina Amour
John Kitzmiller
Trumpet player Johnny
Folco Lulli
Adelmo Conti, l'amant de Liliana
Dante Maggio
Remo
Checco Durante
Theater Owner
Checco Durante
Theater Owner
Gina Mascetti
Valeria del Sole
Giulio Calì
Magician Edison Will
Silvio Bagolini
Bruno Antonini
Giacomo Furia
Duke
Mario De Angelis
Maestro
Vanja Orico
Moema - brazilian singer
Enrico Piergentili
Melina's Father
Renato Malavasi
Hotelkeeper
Joseph Falletta
Pistolero Bill
Carlo Romano
Enzo La Rosa
Fanny Marchiò
Soubrette
Franca Valeri
Mitzy - hungarian designer
Alberto Bonucci
Night Club Comic
Vittorio Caprioli
Night Club Comic
Mirko Baiocchi
Man with the Commander (uncredited)
Federico Fellini
Director / Screenplay / Associate Producer / Story
Tullio Pinelli
Screenplay
Felice Lattuada
Original Music Composer
Otello Martelli
Director of Photography
Mario Bonotti
Editor
Luigi Gervasi
Set Decoration
Aldo Buzzi
Costume Design / Production Design
Argentina Ferri
Hairstylist
Eligio Trani
Makeup Artist
Bianca Lattuada
Production Manager
Mario Ingrami
Production Coordinator
Massimo Mida
First Assistant Director
Augusto Carloni
First Assistant Director
Angelo D'Alessandro
Second Assistant Director
Gastone Rotellini
Production Supervisor
Osvaldo Civirani
Still Photographer
Franco Ferrara
Conductor
Media.
Details.
Release DateDecember 6, 1950
Original NameLuci del varietà
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 33m
Genres
Wiki.
Variety Lights (Italian: Luci del varietà) is a 1951 Italian romantic drama film produced, directed and written by Federico Fellini and Alberto Lattuada and starring Peppino De Filippo, Carla Del Poggio, and Giulietta Masina. The film is about a beautiful and ambitious young woman who joins a traveling troupe of third-rate vaudevillians and inadvertently causes jealousy and emotional crises. A collaboration with Alberto Lattuada in production, direction, and writing, Variety Lights launched Fellini's directorial career. Prior to this film, Fellini worked primarily as a screenwriter, most notably working on Roberto Rossellini’s Rome, Open City.
In 2008, the film was included on the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage’s 100 Italian films to be saved, a list of 100 films that "have changed the collective memory of the country between 1942 and 1978."