The film follows a young boy named Titta in the Italian seaside town Rimini as he gets into trouble with his friends and watches the local eccentrics’ absurd behavior. Set in 1930s Fascist Italy, Titta watches the actions of everyone from his family to the Fascist loyalists to sensual women, with certain moments shifting into fantastical scenarios.
The film won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.

“I think that the characters in Amarcord, the characters in this small village, just because they are like that, restricted in that small area, and that small village is a place that I knew well, and those characters –invented or known- anyway I knew and invented them well, I think that suddenly they become no longer yours, but also of others”
(Federico Fellini about the success of Amarcord)