8½

Drama, Foreign

Marcello Mastroianni	Guido Anselmi
Claudia Cardinale	Claudia
Rossella Falk	Rossella
Eddra Gale	La Saraghina
Madeleine LeBeau	French Actress
Anouk Aimee	Luisa Anselmi
Sandra Milo	Carla
Caterina Boratto	La signora misteriosa
Guido Alberti	Pace, il produttore
Barbara Steele	Gloria Morin
Anouk Aimée	Luisa Anselmi
Bruno Agostini
Olimpia Cavalli

Director	Federico Fellini
Producer	Angelo Rizzoli
Writer	Federico Fellini; Brunello Rondi; Ennio Flaiano
Cinematography	Gianni Di Venanzo
Musician	Nino Rota

Guido Anselmi (Marcello Mastroianni) is a director whose film—and life—are collapsing around him. He finds himself suffering from "director's block", and is under pressure to finish a film he has been directing. He is supposed to be directing an ill-defined science fiction film. But he has lost his passion and overall interest in the insipid project which is even more exacerbated by artistic and marital difficulties at home. Coupling that, he is constantly badgered by people from his past films looking for work on his newer projects. As Guido struggles half-heartedly to work on the film, a series of flashbacks and partial dreams delve into his memories and fantasies. Guido reminisces on the women he’s loved and left in his life. And slowly his dreams become frequently interwoven and Guido winds up confusing his fantasy world with the real one.