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La Strada

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Summary

A street entertainer hires a simple village girl as a clown to go on tour with him, where they make the acquaintance of a mild-mannered acrobat. This eye-catching, Oscar-winning Italian drama stars Anthony Quinn, Richard Basehart and Giulietta Masina, and features a haunting score by Nino Rota, who wrote the theme music for The Godfather

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A star rating of 4 out of 5.

Adrian Turner

This Federico Fellini classic about a brutal circus strong man and a childlike woman was dismissed in Italy on release, but hailed abroad as a masterpiece, sealing Fellini's reputation as a "great artist" and consigning Anthony Quinn to life as a Greek/Italian/Arab/Eskimo. Today, despite the touching performance by Fellini's wife Giulietta Masina, the movie seems crudely sentimental with its love story between a human animal and a simple waif hardly able to contain all the messages and symbols about humanity that the Italian maestro tosses at it. Combining the neorealism of Fellini's early career and the outright fantasies of his later work, this is well worth seeing, if only for its historical impact and striking influence.

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Cast

rolenameZampanoAnthony Quinn (1)GelsominaGiulietta MasinaIl Matto / "The Fool"Richard BasehartIl Signor GiraffaAldo SilvaniWidowMarcella RovereSisterLina Venturini

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Crew

rolenameDirectorFederico Fellini

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Theatrical distributor

BFI

Released on

2001-11-09

Languages

Italian

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Available on

video, DVD and Blu-ray

Formats

Black and white

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