La Dolce Vita teenage "Umbrian angel") were shot on location at Passo Oscuro, a small resort town situated on the Italian coast 30 kilometers from Rome. Fellini scrapped a major sequence that would have involved the relationship of Marcello with Dolores, an older writer living in a tower, to be played by 1930s Academy Award-winning actress Luise Rainer. If the director’s dealings with Rainer "who used to involve Fellini in futile discussion" were problematic, biographer Kezich argues that while rewriting the screenplay, the Dolores character grew "hyperbolic" and Fellini decided to jettison "the entire story line." The scene in the Trevi Fountain was
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