Who can forget the cinema image of Anita Ekberg, enormous in black velvet, wading in the Trevi fountain in La Dolce Vita? Fellini died in 1993, an honoured film-maker of his generation. He won the Academy Award for best Foreign Film on four separate occasions and has repeatedly won every major international film prize at the Cannes, Venice, Berlin and New York film festivals. He lived through the rise of fascism, flower power, feminism, urban terrorism - all condensed into his films with irony and great skill. This full biography draws on interviews with Fellini himself, his relatives and collaborators, as well as letters, diaries, sketchbooks and drafts of screenplays.