MOVIE · 1954
La Strada
Drama115 min
Sold by her impoverished mother to a traveling strongman, Gelsomina (Giulietta Masina) joins a ramshackle circus act and crosses the Italian countryside as performer, partner, and wife to Anthony Quinn’s Zampanò. Federico Fellini follows their rough, itinerant routine from village to village, where Gelsomina’s innocence is met with Zampanò’s coldness and abuse. When they encounter the Fool (Richard Basehart), a playful circus performer and an old rival of Zampanò’s, his bond with Gelsomina unsettles the trio and sharpens the tensions on the road.
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