Federico Fellini in "Marc’Aurelio" as "The First Flight", marked “the emergence of a new Fellini, no longer just a screenwriter, working and sketching at his desk, but a filmmaker out in the field”. The apolitical Fellini was finally freed of the draft when an Allied air raid over Bologna destroyed his medical records. Fellini and Giulietta hid in her aunt's apartment until Mussolini's fall on 25 July 1943. After dating for nine months, the couple were married on 30 October 1943. Several months later, Masina fell down the stairs and suffered a miscarriage. She gave birth to a son, Pierfederico, on 22
Maddalena Fellini dialectal play, "Stal mami" by Liliano Faenza, which got her unexpected attention and critical praises. In 1990 she made her film debut in the Marco Tullio Giordana's segment of the anthology film "Especially on Sunday", getting critical acclaim for her role of a lonely mother spying on the intimate moments of her son and his wife. Fellini was also an occasional writer, being the author of a humorous autobiography ("Storie di una casalinga straripata", 1992) and of a cooking book filled with autobiographical anecdotes ("A tavola con Federico Fellini", 2003). In 1995, she created an association with the aim to