Filming locations · Drama
La Dolce Vita (1960)
A gossip journalist drifts through a week of Roman nights, looking for love and meaning.
- Released
- 1960
- Director
- Federico Fellini
- Runtime
- 174 min
- Shot in
- Rome
Where was La Dolce Vita filmed?
Federico Fellini’s portrait of Rome’s high society won the Palme d’Or in 1960 and gave the world a new word: paparazzi.
Part of what you see was real Rome and part was Cinecittà. That mix is what makes tracking its locations such a pleasure.
The film on a map
2 locations, in the order they appear on screen.
Scene by scene
Nights on the Via Veneto
Via Veneto
Marcello works the cafés of the Via Veneto, some of it shot on the street and much of it on a replica at Cinecittà.
Public space41.9074° N / 12.4887° E“Marcello, come here!”
Trevi Fountain
Sylvia wades into the Trevi Fountain at dawn and Marcello follows her in.
Public space41.9009° N / 12.4833° E
Trivia for the obsessed
The photographer Paparazzo gave his name to celebrity photographers everywhere.
The Trevi scene was shot on cold nights; stories of the cast’s ways of keeping warm are part of the film’s legend.
When Mastroianni died in 1996, the Trevi Fountain was turned off and draped in black.
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