An exhibition of shots revealing Federico Fellini's private side opens the annual summer festival the film legend's hometown devotes to him on June 30.
The show at Rimini's Fellini Museum will feature around 100 personal photos of the director away from the movie set.
They were taken by Chiara Samugheo, one of Italy's top celebrity photographers in the 1950s, 60s and 70s.
Visitors will be able to see the great man captured while doing everyday things like shaving, sleeping and sipping coffee.
The free exhibition, entitled 'Fellini Privat', runs at the Adriatic seaside resort until October 14.
Another fascinating photo exhibition, this time of shots taken during the making of Intervista (1987), will be on display at Rimini's Grand Hotel for a month from July 16.
The 'Fellini Estate 2007' festival will also feature the now traditional screenings of the director's films on Rimini beach.
The Clowns, Intervista and Sweet Charity will be among the movies to be screened between July 16 and August 6.
This year the festival, organized by the Fondazione Federico Fellini, is also marking the 30th anniversary of the death of Charlie Chaplin.
Fellini was profoundly influenced by the work of Chaplin, who he described as the "Adam of world cinema".
He even put two of Chaplin's films, The Kid (1921) and The Circus (1928), first and third respectively on his list of all-time top films.
As a tribute, The Circus will be screened on July 14 accompanied by the live music of the Nuova Sinfonica Italiana orchestra.
The festival will award the 2007 Fondazione Federico Fellini prize to Italian Cannes Golden Palm-winning director Ermanno Olmi for his contribution to filmmaking.
There will also be a conference on Fellini's films and a workshop that will help children understand his work.
"This festival has the job of fighting the risk that Fellini will be forgotten," said Italian director Pupi Avati, the president of the Fondazione Federico Fellini.
"Fellini played a key role in 20th-century culture for Italy and it is necessary to understand the importance the master had for generations like mine.
"When I left a cinema after seeing 8½ back in 1964 I realized my future was in cinema and not in jazz.
"I used to joke with Fellini that if I failed as a filmmaker he would have me on his conscience".
Fellini, author of masterpieces such as La Dolce Vita (1960) and Amarcord (1973), was born in Rimini in January 1920.
He died of a heart attack in Rome in 1993, sending the film world into mourning.
His bizarre plots and at times risqué humour have influenced generations of directors after him.
