Il bidone
Between the international triumphs of La strada and Nights of Cabiria, Federico Fellini made this fascinatingly unique film, which has been long overlooked. Largely eschewing the poetic flourishes of the more famous works that bookend it, Il bidone is a dark neorealist crime drama starring a commanding Broderick Crawford as one of the most complex characters in the director’s canon: an aging con man who, having made a career preying on the desperation of poor peasants, suddenly finds that his crooked ways have begun to catch up with him. Masterfully entwining the story’s human grit with elements of humor and pathos, Fellini crafts a searing portrait of a man reckoning with the consequences of his life’s choices that hits with the force of a profound moral tragedy.
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Collector's Set
Cast
- Broderick Crawford
- Augusto
- Giulietta Masina
- Iris Picasso
- Richard Basehart
- Carlo Picasso
- Franco Fabrizi
- Roberto
- Sue Ellen Blake
- Anna
- Irene Cefaro
- Marisa
- Alberto De Amicis
- Rinaldo
- Lorella De Luca
- Patrizia
- Giacomo Gabrielli
- Baron Vargas
- Riccardo Garrone
- Riccardo
Credits
- Director
- Federico Fellini
- Screenplay
- Federico Fellini
- Screenplay
- Ennio Flaiano
- Screenplay
- Tullio Pinelli
- Cinematography
- Otello Martelli
- Editing
- Mario Serandrei
- Editing
- Giuseppe Vari
- Music
- Nino Rota
- Production design
- Dario Cecchi
- Producer
- Silvio Clementelli
- Producer
- Charles Delac
- Producer
- Mario Derecchi
- Producer
- Goffredo Lombardo
