Synopsis: This carnivalesque portrait of provincial Italy during the fascist period, the most personal film from Federico Fellini, satirizes the director's youth and turns daily life into a circus of social rituals, adolescent desires, male fantasies, and political subterfuge, all set to Nina Rota's classic, nostalgia-tinged score. The Academy Award-winning Amarcord remains one of cinema's enduring treasures.

Director: Federico Fellini

Cast: Pupella Maggio, Armando Brancia, Magali Noel, Ciccio Ingrassia, Nando Orfei, Luigi Rossi, Bruno Zanin, Gianfilippo Carcano, Josiane Tanzilli, Maria Antonietta Beluzzi, Giuseppe Ianigro, Ferruccio Brembilla

Theatrical Release Date: 1973

Language: Italian, English

Subtitles: English

Screen Format: Widescreen

Run Time: 123 minutes (Blu-ray: 1 disc; DVD: 2 discs)

Special Features:

• Restored high-definition digital transfer (with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition)
• Audio commentary by film scholars Peter Brunette and Frank Burke
• Fellini's Homecoming, a 45-minute documentary on the complicated relationship between the celebrated director, his hometown, and his past
• Video interview with star Magali Noel
• Federico Fellini's drawings of characters in the film
• “Felliniana,” a presentation of ephemera devoted to Amarcord from the collection of Don Young
• Archival audio interviews with Fellini and his friends and family, by longtime radio film critic Gideon Bachmann
• Restoration demonstration
• Deleted scene
• American release trailer
• Optional English-dubbed soundtrack
• New and improved English subtitle translation
• PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by scholar Sam Rohdie and Fellini's 1967 essay “My Rimini”

Distributor: The Criterion Collection (DVD/Blu-ray: Spine #4)

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