Directed by:
Federico FelliniScreenplay:
Federico FelliniCinematography:
Dario Di PalmaComposer:
Nino RotaCast:
Anita Ekberg, Federico Fellini, Victoria Chaplin, Pierre Étaix, Annie Fratellini, Shirley Corrigan, Nino Terzo, Charlie Rivel, Jean-Baptiste Thiérrée (more)Plots(1)
The film reflects Fellini's childhood obsession with clowns and begins with a young boy watching a circus set up from his bedroom window. Though comical and referred to as a "docu-comedy", this film explores deeper human conditions such as authority, poverty, humility and arrogance, all of which manifest themselves through the characters of the clowns who vary from the local sex-crazed hobo, a midget nun, to a mutilated Mussolini disciple. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Anita Ekberg
Sweden
Best movies:
La dolce vita (1960)
The Golden Blade (1953)
War and Peace (1956)
Federico Fellini
Italy
Best movies:
Roma (1972)
L'Amore (1948)
Intervista (1987)
Victoria Chaplin
USA
Best movies:
The Clowns (1970) (TV movie)
A Countess from Hong Kong (1967)
Pierre Étaix
France
Best movies:
Mon Oncle (1958)
Yoyo (1965)
As Long As You're Healthy (1966)
Annie Fratellini
Algeria
Best movies:
La Métamorphose des cloportes (1965)
The Great Love (1969)
Zazie in the Underground (1960)
Shirley Corrigan
Best movies:
Massacre in Rome (1973)
Syndicate Sadists (1975)
The Clowns (1970) (TV movie)
Nino Terzo
Italy
Best movies:
Cinema Paradiso (1988)
Roma (1972)
The Clowns (1970) (TV movie)
Charlie Rivel
Spain
Best movies:
The Clowns (1970) (TV movie)
Jean-Baptiste Thiérrée
France
Best movies:
The Clowns (1970) (TV movie)
Muriel, or The Time of Return (1963)
Dragées au poivre (1963)
Marie Párová
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Roma (1972)
Fellini's Casanova (1976)
The Clowns (1970) (TV movie)
Richard Simmons
USA
Best movies:
What Women Want (2000)
The Clowns (1970) (TV movie)
Fellini Satyricon (1969)