Q 01/05

What job does Mastroianni's character hold in La Dolce Vita?

A) A nightclub pianist

B) A gossip journalist

C) A society photographer

D) A film producer

Answer · why

B) A gossip journalist

A gossip journalist. He chronicles the scandals of Rome's café society while a friend urges him to finish the serious book he keeps putting off, and h...

Q 02/05

Which Swedish actress plays Sylvia, the visiting film star Mastroianni's character pursues around Rome in La Dolce Vita?

A) Ingrid Bergman

B) Britt Ekland

C) Anita Ekberg

D) Greta Garbo

Answer · why

C) Anita Ekberg

Anita Ekberg. The role fixed her image for life: she settled in Italy, and decades later she was still living in a villa in the countryside outside Ro...

Q 03/05

In which notorious 1973 film do Mastroianni and three friends gather to eat themselves to death?

A) Amarcord

B) Last Tango in Paris

C) The Night Porter

D) La Grande Bouffe

Answer · why

D) La Grande Bouffe

La Grande Bouffe. Marco Ferreri's satire was jeered at the 1973 Cannes festival in one of its biggest scandals, yet it left with the international cri...

Q 04/05

Mastroianni played Meursault in a 1967 film of The Stranger, a novel by which French writer?

A) Jean-Paul Sartre

B) Albert Camus

C) André Gide

D) Marcel Proust

Answer · why

B) Albert Camus

Albert Camus. Mastroianni plays Meursault, who shoots a man on an Algiers beach and finds the court condemns him less for the killing than for not wee...

Q 05/05

What business did Mastroianni's father run?

A) A carpentry shop

B) A tailor's shop

C) A bicycle shop

D) A print shop

Answer · why

A) A carpentry shop

A carpentry shop. His father, a cabinetmaker, put Marcello to work there as a boy; he later went blind from diabetes and had to ask his wife what was ...