Still image from the 1984 film And The Ship Sails On.

And The Ship Sails On

Directed by Federico Fellini

Taking on a horde of refugees upsets a luxury liner's trip to bury a famous opera singer.

1984 2h 8m Comedy TV-PG

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CAST
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Federico Fellini, Director
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Federico Fellini
Director

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Freddie Jones,
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Freddie Jones

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Barbara Jefford,
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Barbara Jefford

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Peter Cellier,
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Peter Cellier

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Norma West,
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Norma West

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Paolo Paolini,
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Paolo Paolini

FULL SYNOPSIS

Set in 1914, a luxury liner, occupied by various statesmen, aristocrats and members of the opera world, is bound for a remote island where the ashes of the world's greatest soprano are to scattered.


VIDEOS
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Ben Mankiewicz Intro...
Hosted Intro
Ashes Of Edmea
Movie Clip
Domestic Seagull
Movie Clip

ARTICLES
Federico Fellini couldn't get a movie made in 1982. The internationally acclaimed director whose elaborate, grotesque and dreamlike epics inspired the adjective "Felliniesque" had four screenplays ready to become films. The sticking point was money. Cinecittà , the state run film facility (built by Mussolini in 1937) that had served as Fellini's creative stomping grounds for most of his career was beginning a decade-long slide into hard times. In the absence of Italian interest, America came calling. Twentieth Century Fox tried, via the formidable head of production Sherry Lansing, to woo Fellini over to Tinseltown with a sweetheart deal - spend three months in America as our guest and search for a film idea that interests you. Dino De Laurentiis, the Italian-born producer whose resume mixed the highbrow (Bergman's The Serpent's Egg [1977]) with the lowbrow (the 1976 remake of King Kong), wanted Fellini, too. He made a similarly generous offer, with the added provision that the end result must be a picture in English, but Fellini wasn't convinced. He couldn't get used to the idea of living in America, with its "multi-layered social structure", and besides, his mother was very ill. In the early '80s, big budget special effects spectacles like ET: The Extra Terrestrial (1982) and The Empire Strikes Back (1980) ruled Hollywood. Perhaps in protest, Fellini (who freely admitted "All my life I've had a natural resistance to whatever everyone likes, or wants, or is "supp...

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