In the 1961 film directed by Frederico Fellini, write the critics, "the actors are stunning and nightlife Rome looks spectacularly hip in plush velvet black-and-white. Warhol could have based his entire life-as-art movement on a single frame."
"Vita" actor Marcello Mastroianni, managed to get out of a prisoner-of-war camp run by the Germans during World War II and escape to Italy.
According to the , a scene in which actors Anita Ekberg and Marcello Mastroianni stand in the Trevi Fountain was shot in March and Mastroianni was so cold he needed to wear a wetsuit.
