Editing Federico Fellini (section)

==Political views==
While Fellini was for the most part indifferent to politics,{{sfn|Kezich|2006|p=45}} he had a general dislike of [[authoritarianism|authoritarian]] institutions, and is interpreted by Bondanella as believing in "the dignity and even the [[Humanism|nobility of the individual human being]]".{{sfn|Bondanella|2002|p=119}} In a 1966 interview, he said, "I make it a point to see if certain ideologies or political attitudes threaten the private freedom of the individual. But for the rest, I am not prepared nor do I plan to become interested in politics."<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/federicofellini00fede|url-access=registration|title=Federico Fellini: Interviews|page=[https://archive.org/details/federicofellini00fede/page/63 63]|editor-last=Cardullo|editor-first=Bert|publisher=Univ. Press of Mississippi|date=2006|isbn=978-1-57806-885-2}}</ref>

Despite various famous Italian actors favouring the [[Italian Communist Party|Communists]], Fellini was opposed to communism. He preferred to move within the world of the moderate [[left-wing|left]], and voted for the [[Italian Republican Party]] of his friend [[Ugo La Malfa]] as well as the reformist socialists of [[Pietro Nenni]], another friend of his, and voted only once for the [[Christian Democracy (Italy)|Christian Democracy]] party (''Democrazia Cristiana'', DC) in 1976 to keep the Communists out of power.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Minuz |first1=Andrea |title=Political Fellini: Journey to the End of Italy |date=2015 |publisher=Berghahn Books |page=183}}</ref> Bondanella writes that DC "was far too aligned with an extremely conservative and even reactionary pre-Vatican II church to suit Fellini's tastes."{{sfn|Bondanella|2002|p=119}}

Apart from satirizing [[Silvio Berlusconi]] and mainstream television in ''[[Ginger and Fred]]'',{{sfn|Kezich|2006|p=367}} Fellini rarely expressed political views in public and never directed an overtly political film. He directed two electoral television spots during the 1990s: one for DC and another for the [[Italian Republican Party]] (PRI).<ref>{{cite news|language=it|url=http://archiviostorico.corriere.it/1992/marzo/18/con_PRI_Federico_Fellini_sponsor_co_0_92031817413.shtml|title=Con DC e PRI, Federico Fellini sponsor di due nemicicon DC e PRI, Federico Fellini sponsor di due nemici|journal=Il Corriere della Sera|date=18 March 1992}}</ref> His slogan "Non si interrompe un'emozione" (''Don't interrupt an emotion'') was directed against the excessive use of TV advertisements. The [[Democratic Party of the Left]] also used the slogan in the [[Italian referendum, 1995|referendums of 1995]].{{sfn|Dagnino|2019|p=39}}