La Strada — Filmed in Italy - where it happened!

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La Strada

Name: La Strada
Genre: Drama
Released: 1954-09-23
Duration: 1 h 55 min
Rating: 4
Cast: Giulietta Masina, Anthony Quinn, Richard Basehart, Aldo Silvani, Marcella Rovere

1954 8 13.8K NR views saved

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.

Countries: IT

Languages: Italian

Content Rating: NR

Runtime: 1hrs 55min

Status: Released

Release date: 1954-09-23

Release format: Streaming — Jul 28, 1994

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@saint-pauly 6 years ago

I feel like _La Strada_ is a gift I was given that I thoroughly enjoy but have no idea what to do with.

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@manicure 2 years ago

A woman with (apparently) a mental disability gets sold to a street performer and joins him on the road. Sometimes he takes care of her, and sometimes (well, most of the time actually) he just treats her like her pet. The dialogues are contrived and overly sentimental, yet the surreal atmosphere makes everything feel coherent as some kind of bittersweet fairytale.

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@soonertbone 2 years ago

First Fellini. Struggled with this, because the brutish violence of Anthony Quinn’s Zampano is hard to stomach, which makes the Stockholm devotion of Gelsomina (a truly stunning performance by Masina–what a face) tough to root for or even to open up to. Still, there’s genuine emotion at the end in the mountains and I found myself feeling for the characters even in spite of myself. Worth a rewatch at some point.

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