City of Women (La città delle donne)

Federico Fellini is behind the 1980 Italian-French fantasy comedy-drama City of Women (La città delle donne, known in Turkish as Kadınlar Kenti), which he wrote with Bernardino Zapponi and Brunello Rondi. It was shown out of competition at the 33rd Cannes Film Festival and runs about 140 minutes. Daniel Toscan du Plantier produced and Luis Bacalov composed the music.

The hero, Snàporaz (Marcello Mastroianni), is first seen on a train journey. He catches a bottle slipping from the hands of the woman opposite, meets her eyes and follows her out of the compartment. When she abruptly steps off the train and walks away, he loses her and ends up in a hotel filled entirely with women, where a large feminist gathering is under way. What follows is a journey where dream and reality blur: Snàporaz drifts between male and female realms toward a reckoning with his attitude to women and with his wife.

Fellini's familiar outrageous, dreamlike and artistic imagery fills the film. The cast includes Bernice Stegers as the woman on the train, Dominique Labourier as a feminist, and Ettore Manni, Donatella Damiani, Rosaria Tafuri, Loredana Solfizi and Gabriella Giorgelli. It was also shown at the 2013 Fellini Days in Ankara; its subject is women, desire and the male outlook.