Roger Vadim, Louis Malle, Federico Fellini

The Profile

Roger Vadim, Louis Malle and Federico Fellini are film directors who each contributed a segment to the 1968 Edgar Allan Poe anthology film Tre passi nel delirio (also known as Spirits of the Dead).

Federico Fellini was an Italian director noted for blending fantasy and baroque imagery; Roger Vadim and Louis Malle were French directors active in mid-20th-century cinema. The three collaborated on the 1968 Poe adaptation anthology.

A review of the 1968 anthology Tre passi nel delirio (Spirits of the Dead). Vadim's chapter is judged glossy but shallow, Malle's competent, and Fellini's 'Toby Dammit' is praised. Overall the Fellini segment makes the film worth watching.