La Dolce Vita (1960)
Giorgio Olivetti’s painted artwork captures the whole intoxicating world of the film in one sheet. At its heart, Anita Ekberg, all blonde hair and bare shoulders in a white fur stole, gazes up at Marcello Mastroianni in his sharp dark suit. Around them, the women of Marcello’s restless Roman nights pose and sulk against a vivid turquoise background. It’s glamour, desire and decadence, painted with real Italian flair.
La Dolce Vita follows Marcello, a gossip journalist drifting through Rome’s high society, torn between writing something serious and losing himself in parties, celebrities and casual affairs. Its most famous moment, Ekberg wading into the Trevi Fountain at dawn and calling “Marcello, come here!”, became one of the most iconic images in film history. The film won the Palme d’Or at Cannes in 1960, earned Fellini an Oscar nomination for Best Director and won the Oscar for Best Costume Design. It even gave the world a new word: Marcello’s photographer sidekick is called Paparazzo, which is where “paparazzi” comes from.
Posters like this were printed to be pasted up on Italian streets and in cinema foyers for the film’s original release, then thrown away. Surviving copies of this design are rare, and Italian paper for La Dolce Vita is among the most desirable of all European film posters.
- Year: 1960
- Nationality: Italian
- Condition: Linen-Backed
- Type: Original Italian 2 Foglio
- Size: 39 X 55 Inches
- Product Code: T5625
