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City of Women is a italien film of genre Drama directed by Federico Fellini released in USA on 8 april 1981 with Marcello Mastroianni

City of Women (1980)

La città delle donne

City of Women
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Released in USA 8 april 1981
Length 2h20
Directed by
OriginItalie
Genres Drama,    Science fiction,    Comedy,    Comedy-drama,    Fantasy,    Adventure,    Romance
Rating69% 3.450373.450373.450373.450373.45037

City of Women (Italian: La città delle donne) is a 1980 film written and directed by Federico Fellini. Amid Fellini's characteristic combination of dreamlike, outrageous, and artistic imagery, Marcello Mastroianni plays Snàporaz, a man who voyages through male and female spaces toward a confrontation with his own attitudes toward women and his wife.

Synopsis

Snàporaz (Marcello Mastroianni) wakes up during a train ride and has a brief fling with a woman in the bathroom, but it's cut short when the train suddenly stops and the woman gets off. Snàporaz follows her into the woods, through the wilderness and into a Grand Hotel overrun with women in attendance for a surrealistic feminist convention. He winds up in a conference about polyandry, where his presence is rejected. A frightened Snàporaz retreats to the hotel lobby, but the exit is blocked; instead he seeks refuge with a girl who offers her assistance, Donatella (Donatella Damiani), inside an elevator.

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