La Strada
Filmed in Italy - where it happened!
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9/23/1954Runtime
115 minsGenres
Overview
When Gelsomina, a naïve young woman, is purchased from her impoverished mother by brutish circus strongman Zampanò to be his wife and partner, she loyally endures her husband's coldness and abuse as they travel the Italian countryside performing together. Soon Zampanò must deal with his jealousy and conflicted feelings about Gelsomina when she finds a kindred spirit in Il Matto, the carefree circus fool, and contemplates leaving Zampanò.
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A haunting portrait of a fragile woman trapped between two men on a circus road trip through post-war Italy, told with poetic restraint and devastating emotional precision. Fellini transforms a simple story of abuse and longing into a meditation on human kindness and the possibility of connection across a chasm of cruelty.
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Giulietta Masina
Gelsomina
Anthony Quinn
Zampanò
Richard Basehart
Il 'Matto'
Aldo Silvani
Il Signor Giraffa
Marcella Rovere
La Vedova
Livia Venturini
La Suorina
Pietro Ceccarelli
Innkeeper (uncredited)
Giovanna Galli
Prostitute at the Inn (uncredited)
Gustavo Giorgi
(uncredited)
Yami Kamadeva
Prostitute (uncredited)
Mario Passante
Waiter (uncredited)
Anna Primula
Gelsomina's Mother (uncredited)
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