All Titta and his fellow students can do is goof off or skip class when not called upon to solve math problems or identify obscure historical details.
School under Fascism is a tedious cavalcade of dry facts recited by instructors of varying levels of engagement and skill. The townspeople play pranks on one another, explode fireworks, cavort with loose women and make lewd noises when the civically minded lawyer lectures on the history of the region. As night falls, the inhabitants make their way to the village square for a traditional bonfire in which the Old Witch of Winter is ritually burned. In Borgo San Giuliano, a village near Rimini, the arrival of fluffy poplar seeds floating on the wind heralds the arrival of spring. In 2008, the film was included on the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage’s 100 Italian films to be saved, a list of 100 films that "have changed the collective memory of the country between 19." Plot
The film won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and was nominated for two more Academy Awards: Best Director and Best Original Screenplay. Fellini skewers Mussolini's ludicrous posturings and those of a Catholic Church that "imprisoned Italians in a perpetual adolescence" by mocking himself and his fellow villagers in comic scenes that underline their incapacity to adopt genuine moral responsibility or outgrow foolish sexual fantasies. Titta's sentimental education is emblematic of Italy's "lapse of conscience". Benzi became a lawyer and remained in close contact with Fellini throughout his life. The central role of Titta is based on Fellini's childhood friend from Rimini, Luigi Titta Benzi. The title then became a neologism of the Italian language, with the meaning of "nostalgic revocation". The film's title is a univerbation (words combined to form a single word) of the Romagnol phrase a m'arcôrd ("I remember"). Amarcord ( Italian: ) is a 1973 comedy-drama film directed by Federico Fellini, a semi- autobiographical tale about Titta, an adolescent boy growing up among an eccentric cast of characters in the village of Borgo San Giuliano (situated near the ancient walls of Rimini) in 1930s Fascist Italy.
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