Marcello Mastroianni uncredited extra in "Marionette" (1939) when he was fourteen, and made intermittent minor film appearances until landing his first big role in "Atto d'accusa" (1951). Within a decade he became a major international celebrity, starring in "Big Deal on Madonna Street" (1958); and in Federico Fellini's "La Dolce Vita" opposite Anita Ekberg in 1960, where he played a disillusioned and self-loathing tabloid columnist who spends his days and nights exploring Rome's high society. Mastroianni followed "La Dolce Vita" with another signature role, that of a film director who, amidst self-doubt and troubled love affairs, finds himself in a creative block
La vita non perde valore on his activity with the former child soldiers of Sierra Leone. "La vita non perde valore" is the documentary that came out, it is a focus "[not] on the human drama, but how it was dealt with and resolved." Premiered in 2012, the film was also released in an English-language version the same year. The documentary has been analyzed in different Universities, becoming subject of various degree thesis, La vita non perde valore La vita non perde valore ("Life does not lose its value") is a 2012 documentary film about the reintegration into society of former child soldiers in Sierra