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 and Ginger Rogers

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Ginger and Fred is a 1986 comedy/drama film directed by Federico Fellini

Federico Fellini

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 and starring Marcello Mastroianni

Marcello Mastroianni

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 and Giulietta Masina

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The title is a reference to the American dancing couple Fred Astaire

Fred Astaire

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 and Ginger Rogers

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. The two leads portray Italian impersonators of Astaire and Rogers who reunite after thirty years of retirement for a vulgar and bizarre television extravaganza.

The movie is a complex and coherent indictment of the shallowness of commercial television, which, eager to squeeze commercials across every possible kind of program, deadens the viewers' ability to appreciate complex or thought-provoking themes.

The television mogul "Fulvio Lombardoni" is an early and biting satire of Silvio Berlusconi

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, who at the time was building his monopolistic media empire in total disrespect of Italian laws about nationwide TV emissions.

Cast

• Giulietta Masina
  Giulietta Masina
  Giulietta Masina was an Italian film and stage actress. She starred in La Strada and Nights of Cabiria, both winners of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, in 1956 and 1957, respectively...
  
   as Amelia Bonetti (Ginger)
• Marcello Mastroianni
  Marcello Mastroianni
  Marcello Vincenzo Domenico Mastroianni, Knight Grand Cross was an Italian film actor. His honours included British Film Academy Awards, Best Actor awards at the Cannes Film Festival and two Golden Globe Awards.- Personal life :...
  
   as Pippo Botticella (Fred)
• Franco Fabrizi
  Franco Fabrizi
  Franco Fabrizi was an Italian actor.Son of a barber and a cinema cashier, he was a soap opera photo actor, for example, the fotoromanzo Arizona Kid, in the newspaper Avventuroso Film...
  
   as Show host
• Friedrich von Ledebur
  Friedrich von Ledebur
  Graf Friedrich Anton Maria Hubertus Bonifacius von Ledebur-Wicheln was an actor who was known for Moby Dick , Alexander the Great and Slaughterhouse-Five .Ledebur was born in Austria-Hungary in 1900...
  
   as Admiral Aulenti
• Augusto Poderosi as Transvestite
• Martin Maria Blau as Assistant director
• Jacques Henri Lartigue
  Jacques Henri Lartigue
  Jacques Henri Lartigue was a French photographer and painter.Born in Courbevoie to a wealthy family, he is most famous for his stunning photos of automobile races, planes and fashionable Parisian women from the turn of the century.He started taking photos when he was 7, his subject matter being...
  
   as Brother Gerolamo
• Totò Mignone as Totò
• Ezio Marano as The Intellectual
• Antoine Saint-John
  Antoine Saint-John
  Antoine Saint-John is a French actor.Born in Avignon, France, he found work as a stage actor until the early '70s, when he began working on films. Most of his films are virtually unknown outside of Europe...
  
   as Bandaged man
• Friedrich von Thun as Kidnapped Industrialist
• Antonino Iuorio as TV Inspector
• Barbara Scoppa as Journalist
• Elisabetta Flumeri as Journalist
• Salvatore Billa as Clark Gable