| Nino Rota and Federico Fellini are the definitive composer-director team. They are Italian cinema and they are internationally famous. This compilation features a number of Rota scores, Toby Dammit, the soundtrack of which is the centrepiece of this compilation is a cinematic masterpiece made by Fellini during his LSD taking period and widely regarded as the most eloquent example of film psychedelia Nino Rota is seen as very contemporary, this compilation will be of interest to the same public who have purchased our highly successful Ennio Morricone compilations. The music of Nino Rota is the timeless sound of Italy; a mixture of romance, surrealism and madness. Almost all of the Fellini films are landmarks in cinema history and both the director and composer were extremely popular; Nino Rota's theme song for the film "La Strada" sold more than two million copies in Italy alone "Everyone lives in his own fantasy world, but most people don't understand that. No one perceives the real world. Each person simply call his private, personal fantasies the truth. The difference is that I know I live in a fantasy world. I prefer it that way and resent anything that disturbs my vision." Federico Fellini
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