Returning to themes explored in La strada (1954), Fellini creates a story about the soul's whisperings that only madmen and vagabonds can hear. Ivo Salvini (Benigni), a phony well inspector, and Gonnella (Villaggio), a former prefect, stroll around Fellini's childhood Emilia-Romagna countryside, discovering a dystopia of television advertising, fascism, beauty pageants, rock music, Catholicism, and pagan ritual.
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Returning to themes explored in La strada (1954), Fellini creates a story about the soul's whisperings that only madmen and vagabonds can hear. Ivo Salvini (Benigni), a phony well inspector, and Gonnella (Villaggio), a former prefect, stroll around Fellini's childhood Emilia-Romagna countryside, discovering a dystopia of television advertising, fascism, beauty pageants, rock music, Catholicism, and pagan ritual.
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