Cinecittà si Mostra site features

Cinecittà is a walled studio lot on the via Tuscolana, entered through a low rationalist gate of the 1930s, and the first thing you cross is not a museum but a green park, with scenery standing about in it like garden sculpture.

The props greet you before the buildings do. The Rocking Horse from Pinocchio and the mysterious head of Venusia — made for Fellini's Il Casanova of 1976 — sit out in the open among the trees, weathered and oversized.

The historic buildings are low, long and plain. Pale rendered blocks with regular windows, laid out along straight roads; inside them the four exhibition routes are dark, screened spaces full of images, videos, interviews and original costumes.

Then there is a submarine. "Il sottomarino S-33" is the actual set built for U-571 — a steel interior of pipes, valves and bunks, lit low.

The MIAC is the opposite in feel. Projection surfaces, interactive installations, video art and multimedia routes in the dark, with original sculptures from La dolce vita and Ludwig standing in the light.

And outside, a Roman city that is not Roman. The permanent "Roma Antica" set — built for the HBO series Rome — is a street of temple fronts, balustrades and column screens in plaster and timber painted to look like marble, convincing from the front and openly a stage from the side, where scaffolding, cables and the backs of flats are visible, and a modern apartment block shows over the top.

A second set is suburban. The villas of "Un medico in famiglia", which anyone visiting the exhibition and museum can walk into freely.

The Roma Antica set

Monumental scenography built for the HBO television series Rome, visitable with specialised guides at weekends and on published set days.

"Un medico in famiglia"

The set with the villas, always freely accessible to anyone visiting the exhibition and the museum.

FELLINIANA

"Ferretti sogna Fellini", signed by Francesca Lo Schiavo and Dante Ferretti, the Oscar-winning set designer.

Il sottomarino S-33

The set made for the film U-571 by Jonathan Mostow.

Girando a Cinecittà and Backstage

The history of the great films through images, videos, interviews and original costumes; and the trades of cinema.

The MIAC

Hundreds of films from the most important film libraries of Italy, interactive installations, video art and multimedia, with original sculptures from La dolce vita and Ludwig and works by Vanessa Beecroft documenting VB93, performed in Teatro 5.

Studio EL

The studio of Ettore Scola and Luciano Ricceri, with hundreds of original sketches, projects, documents and models — only with compulsory booking for groups.

The park pieces

The Rocking Horse from Pinocchio and the head of Venusia from Fellini's Il Casanova (1976).

Cinebimbicittà

From October to June, included in the ticket: a workshop space for children with activities, animated and family visits, readings and special events every month.