# I Vitelloni (1953)

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**Original title**: *I vitelloni*
**Runtime**: 103 min
**Genres**: Comedy, Drama
**Directed by**: Federico Fellini
**Written by**: Ennio Flaiano, Tullio Pinelli, Federico Fellini
**Starring**: Franco Interlenghi, Alberto Sordi, Franco Fabrizi, Leopoldo Trieste, Riccardo Fellini, Leonora Ruffo

> *We are the hollow men in this last of meeting places we grope together and avoid speech. Gathered on this beach of the torrid river.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Here's a film about some layabouts. Five buddies linger too long in their small seaside town, avoiding work and maturity with dubious schemes and romantic misadventures. Everyone disappoints someone, sooner or later. At least they made a movie about it.

**Mood tags**: foreign-gem, bittersweet, outsider, slow-burn, tender

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