Amarcord

Amarcord is an autobiographical film by Federico Fellini from 1973 that tells of a year of his youth in the fascist Rimini of 1937.

Amarcord contains not so much a plot but the film is a succession of memories of the protagonist. The film begins in the spring as the fluff of the poplars fly through the air and it ends up as a year later the fluff reappear, during the wedding of the most beautiful woman in the city.

In the film are in addition to the family and youth issues of the main character also the social developments of visible before World War II; the emerging elements of the fascist state diving settled on and stand in front of the Communism that adheres to the father of the main character.

Famous is the scene in which Uncle Teo, founded for a day in the countryside from the met, in a tree is climbed to over the countryside the heartfelt cry to cry out: voglio una donna! (I want a woman!). No one gets him down, to retrieve him from the the dwergnon was founded after a short but whole-hearted text from the tree talk.

Fellini's composer Nino Rota has composed the music for this film. Fellini won an Oscar with Amacord for best foreign film.