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Both Cico and Pallina always have the same dream: every night they see two characters, Giulietta and Federico, embarking on daring journeys, losing each other and getting back together, discovering incredible landscapes.But a woman named Giulietta and a man named Federico really existed. They lived in the last century, the twentieth century, thecentury of Cinema. And they met one another to give life to two radio characters, Cico and Pallina, and their adventures. A dreamlike and lyrical book about the production and poetics of Federico Fellini, and the love story with his wife, the actressGiulietta Masina, on the centenary of his birth.


Federica Iacobelli works as a writer, screenwriter and laywright. She teaches Screenwriting at ISIA Urbino and Writing and Dramaturgy in higher education and university courses. She has written short stories, novels, plays, scripts for documentary films, animated films and TV programs and was awarded Prize Pippi in 2008.

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