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La strada ( The Road) is a 1954 Italian drama film directed by Federico Fellini and co-written by Fellini, Tullio Pinelli and Ennio Flaiano. The film tells the story of Gelsomina, a simple-minded young woman ( Giulietta Masina) bought from her mother by Zampanò ( Anthony Quinn ), a brutish strongman who takes her with him on the road.
The Road: Directed by Federico Fellini. With Anthony Quinn, Giulietta Masina, Richard Basehart, Aldo Silvani. A care-free girl is sold to a traveling entertainer, consequently enduring physical and emotional pain along the way.
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- Drama
- Federico Fellini
- 1956-07-16
La strada. With this breakthrough film, Federico Fellini launched both himself and his wife and collaborator Giulietta Masina to international stardom, breaking with the neorealism of his early career in favor of a personal, poetic vision of life as a bittersweet carnival.
- Gelsomina Di Constanzo
A brutish strongman named Zampano ( Anthony Quinn) tours Italy, living in a ramshackle caravan pulled by a motorcycle. He needs an assistant for his act, and from a poor widow at the seaside he purchases her slow-witted daughter Gelsomina (Giulietta Masina).
Zampano the gypsy, a traveling circus strong-man, buys a young woman from her destitute mother and makes her his assistant in the act, but his ill-treatment and abuse of her cause her to suffer greatly. Eventually, he leaves her only to regret his deed and discover tragedy some years later.
- Federico Fellini
- Giulietta Masina
When Gelsomina (Giulietta Masina), a naïve young woman, is purchased from her impoverished mother by brutish circus strongman Zampanò (Anthony Quinn) to be his wife and partner, she loyally ...
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- Drama
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.
