Giulietta e Federico
A film on the last year of Federico Fellini’s life.
Something along the lines of “Il Viaggio di G. Mastorna”, the mythical film he would never make. The script was written, the sets were built, the actors were cast. (Why did he abandon it? Because it represented death? The afterlife? The end?)
1993 is the year of Federico and Giulietta’s golden anniversary.
January 20: Federico celebrates seventy-third birthday in Rome.
February 8: Federico writes to the provost of the University of Bologna, declining the offer of an honorary degree.
March 29: Federico receives an Oscar for Lifetime Achievement in Los Angeles.
June 16: Federico has heart bypass surgery in Zurich.
June 28: After being released from surgery he lingers in Zurich with Giulietta.
August 3: He has a stroke while at the Grand Hotel in Rimini that leaves the left side of his body paralyzed
August 30: Transfered to a hospital in Ferrara for rehabilitation. Giulietta falls ill in Rome.
September 18: Federico has himself moved to Rome to be with Giulietta who is now in hospital.
October 9: Giulietta out of hospital. Federico transferred to Policlinico Umberto 1 in Rome (to the same first-floor room his brother, Riccardo, died).
October 17: Allowed to leave the hospital for a day, Federico brunches at Il Bersagliere with Giulietta, but upon returning to the clinic he falls into an irreversible coma (into the land of dreams).
October 30: Federico and Giulietta’s fiftieth wedding anniversary
October 31: Federico passes away at noon.
November 2: Memorial service in Studio 5 of Cinecittà attended by tens of thousands of Romans.
Three months later, Giulietta dies.
Right, now how do I not make it a tragedy?
