how mood and claudia cardinal marchila critics called eight and a half a biography of the crisis, and the name itself carries a riddle that there are eight and a half. it serial number. the work of the sixty-third year in his creative biography included seven full meters and one short film. here is the whole secret. a little bit immediately after the triumphant sweet life, the filmed stream of consciousness of the director was considered daring to go around the story that nikita khrushchev fell asleep while watching the picture as part of the third moscow film festival, but nevertheless, the most personal work of the master brought unexpected results. at that very scandalously sleepy soviet festival, the chairman of the jury, grigoryevich, boldly dared the region. dal the big prize is precisely federico fellini in the piggy bank also turned out to be two oscars and a host of other international awards quirky dialogue of his own. i'm searching for the muse of the introspective discourse on the creative process, 8 1/2 started the definition of a new genre in cinema of the genre of other