People of Rome | |
Director: | Ettore Scola |
Music: | Armando Trovajoli |
Cinematography: | Franco Di Giacomo |
Editing: | Raimondo Crociani |
Runtime: | 100 minutes |
Country: | Italy |
Language: | Italian |
People of Rome (Italian: Gente di Roma) is a 2003 Italian comedy mockumentary film directed by Ettore Scola. It is close to Federico Fellini's Roma.
The film is dedicated to Alberto Sordi, whom Scola had wanted to cast as a nobleman in the final scene. Sordi died before this could come to pass.
Scola's daughters co-wrote the script.
Rome 2003, the camera follows citizens of Rome. Night, in a flat, a woman prepares her husband's lunch. The man takes a bus, but the camera follow another bus ... a woman cleans the mayor's office... A man interviews passengers on a bus about immigration...... the owner of a bar is racist person... a survivor woman of Holocaust remembers the Ghetto deportation... deportation that is filmed by a director... Stefania Sandrelli plays with her grand daughter in a park a man tries to seduce the bus driver...gay night life... sunrise at Piazza Navona, a noble man and a tramp are sitting together.