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Release Date: 1954

Cast: Mario Passante, Marcella Rovere, Yami Kamadeva, Anna Primula, Anthony Quinn, Giulietta Masina, Livia Venturini, Aldo Silvani, Gustavo Giorgi, Richard Basehart

Categories: Movies, Melodrama, Indie, World cinema, Black-and-white, Romantic drama, Art film

La Strada (English: The Road) is a 1954 Italian neorealist drama directed by Federico Fellini in which a naïve young woman (Giulietta Masina) is sold to a brutish man (Anthony Quinn) and goes on the road as a part of his itinerant show. La Strada won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1956, the first presented in that category. Gelsomina (Giulietta Masina), a fey young woman, learns her sister Rosa has died since going on the road with the strongman Zampanò (Anthony Quinn). Now the same man has returned a year later to ask her mother if Gelsomina will take Rosa's place.... MORE

La Strada (English: The Road) is a 1954 Italian neorealist drama directed by Federico Fellini in which a naïve young woman (Giulietta Masina) is sold to a brutish man (Anthony Quinn) and goes on the road as a part of his itinerant show. La Strada won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1956, the first presented in that category. Gelsomina (Giulietta Masina), a fey young woman, learns her sister Rosa has died since going on the road with the strongman Zampanò (Anthony Quinn). Now the same man has returned a year later to ask her mother if Gelsomina will take Rosa's place. The mother accepts 10,000 lire and her daughter departs the same day. Zampanò makes his living as an itinerant performer, entertaining crowds by breaking an iron chain bound tightly across his chest, then passing the hat for tips. In short order, Gelsomina's naïve and antic nature emerges, although Zampanò's brutish methods present her with a callous foil. He teaches her to play the snare drum and trumpet, dance a bit, and clown for the audience. Despite her willingness to please, he relies on intimidation and even cruelty at times to maintain his dominion. Finally, she rebels and leaves, making her LESS