E1 Entertainment has acquired North American rights to director Federico Fellini's 1960 feature "La Dolce Vita," ("The Sweet Life") as well as other classic Italian films for North America, in a new deal with International Media Films.A theatrical re-release for "La Dolce Vita" is planned for later this year.
Winner of an Oscar and the Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, the film follows the story of a passive journalist's week in Rome and a search for happiness and love that eludes him.Other films included in the E1 deal are Vittorio De Sica's "Shoe-Shine" (1946) as well as Luchino Visconti's "Bellissima" (1951), "La Terra Trema" (1948), and "Ossessione" (1943).
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