Amarcord is the 1973 Italian comedy-drama film directed by Federico Fellini, considered a semi-autobiographical tale about Titta, a teeneager growing up among an eccentric cast of characters in the village of Borgo San Giuliano, close to Rimini, in 1930s Fascist Italy. The film’s title is a neologism for “I remember.”
Titta’s education is emblematic of Italy’s “lack of conscience” and Fellini skewers Mussolini’s ludicrous posturings and those of a Catholic Church that “imprisoned Italians in a perpetual adolescence”by mocking himself and his fellow villagers in comic scenes that underline their incapacity to adopt genuine moral responsibility or outgrow foolish sexual fantasies.
The film won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 1975, and was nominated for two Academy Awards: Best Director and Best Writing, Original Screenplay.
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