Returning to themes he initially explored in La strada (1954), Fellini constructs a story about the soul's whispers, which only lunatics and vagabonds can hear. Ivo Salvini (Benigni), a fake inspector of wells, and Gonnella (Villaggio), a former prefect, encounter a dystopia of television advertising, fascism, beauty pageants, rock music, Catholicism, and pagan ritual as they traverse the Emilia-Romagna region of Fellini's youth.
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Returning to themes he initially explored in La strada (1954), Fellini constructs a story about the soul's whispers, which only lunatics and vagabonds can hear. Ivo Salvini (Benigni), a fake inspector of wells, and Gonnella (Villaggio), a former prefect, encounter a dystopia of television advertising, fascism, beauty pageants, rock music, Catholicism, and pagan ritual as they traverse the Emilia-Romagna region of Fellini's youth.
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