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Cinecittà turns 70

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"Where, if not at Cinecittà?" Federico Fellini used to say peremptorily, calling the film studios located in the eastern outskirts of Rome "a place in which the mysterious process of creativity is developed". The great maestro entered the gates of the established for the time in 1939, as a journalist, to meet a diva of the era, Marisa Ferida. Cinecittà had been founded only two years earlier.

Today, the Studios are celebrating their 70th anniversary with a huge party for a thousand illustrious guests, including Wim Wenders, Stephen Frears, Vincent Perez, Ines Sastre, Luc Besson, Gabriele Muccino, Dario Argento, Marco Bellocchio, and the Taviani brothers.

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(Translated from Italian)

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