who narrates?


I had trouble figuring out which of them is the narrator of the film. At the beginning, the narrator talks about the five guys as "we" but refers to all of them in the third person. Am I missing something?

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Because the film is heavily autobiographical, I think the idea is that Fellini himself is the narrator, not one of the players in the film. Just a guess, though. :)

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the narrator is Moraldo, the one who leaves town at the end of the picture. He may be the character closest to Fellini himself, but, not entirely: Fellini left home at 18 or 19, not at 30 as does Moraldo. (I got this from the short documentary that is included in the DVD of 'I Vitelloni.')

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I'm pretty sure you're right about Moraldo being the narrator. I believe someone said something to that extent on the special features of the DVD.

I think it wouldn't have been right for Fellini to have the character leave at the same age he did because, as it was stated in the documentary, Fellini was not a Vitellone.

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Hmm, though Moraldo is definitely the heart of the film, I believe the narrator is actually the sixth man that is sometimes on the periphery of their group. He's around more when Fausto is on his honeymoon--you can clearly see he's not really one of the vitelloni when they're walking arm in arm down the street (not the opening shot, but the one in the middle of the movie), and he's wearing a darker coat than the other four. I think his name may be Massimo? Not sure though. He had a moustache. Anyway, I'm fairly certain it couldn't be one of the main five guys, since the narrator introduces them all by name (and in the third person) in the beginning, and it'd be unnecessarily deceptive to do that unless it wasn't one of them.

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That's the guy with the 'stache I called the 6th Vitelloni. I don't think he even got a credit; his inclusion in the group at the beach while Fausto was out of town is a bit of a poser.

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The mysterious moustached Vitellone...?

He's in a few scenes...at the beach, at the sidewalk cafe' when Fausto and Sandra return from Rome, at the Carnevale party, he's with his date up in the rafters, along with Riccardo and his date. I need to watch again, but I think he is at the dinner with the show girls and the theatre actor.

Interesting he doesn't get a name....maybe him?

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I just watched the movi again. The 6th Vitelloni appears in the film at the very beginning, at the very start of the narration, in the first celebration he's requesting an autograph to the Italian actress. The more you see the film, the more times he appear. By the way, anyone knows whatever became of the actress who plays the mysterious lady at the cinema?

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Absolutely, the narrator has to be the sixth man (yes, there was a sixth man). If you are not aware of his existence, you probably will not notice him (he appears for the first time at the train station, when Fabio is leaving with his wife for the honeymoon). I think he's the same vitellone that dances with Alberto at the ballo in maschera. At the beginning of the film, the narrator refers to all 5 vitelloni in the 3rd person. But the actor who plays this mysterious character is not the same actor who provided the narrator's voice: Riccardo Cucciolla, who played Sacco in Giuliano Montaldo's "Sacco e Vanzetti". I don't think that character has a name.

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I thought it was Moraldo too. Though I wasn't completely sure about the voice...sounded a lot like him. My film prof said Moraldo was sort of a stand-in for Fellini, with his sailor suit during the carnival.

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