La strada (1954)
Gelsomina è una ragazza fragile e presumibilmente con una lieve disabilità mentale che vive in condizioni di estrema povertà con la madre vedova e i suoi fratelli minori. Un giorno in paese arriva Zampanò, un rozzo saltimbanco che per guadagnarsi da vivere porta in giro i suoi primitivi spettacoli attraverso le lande più povere di un'Italia ancora contadina e semplice. L'uomo aveva già preso con sé Rosa, sorella di Gelsomina che però era morta improvvisamente; su richiesta dell'uomo la madre arriva a vendere anche la seconda figlia per guadagnare una minima somma di denaro. Gelsomina segue così Zampanò...
Direttore:
Federico Fellini
Scrittori:
Federico Fellini, Tullio Pinelli.
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Giulietta Masina as Gelsomina |
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Anthony Quinn as Zampanò |
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Richard Basehart as Il 'Matto' |
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Aldo Silvani as Il Signor Giraffa |
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Marcella Rovere as La Vedova |
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Livia Venturini as La Suorina |
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Pietro Ceccarelli as Innkeeper (uncredited) |
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Giovanna Galli as Prostitute at the Inn (uncredited) |
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Gustavo Giorgi as (uncredited) |
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Yami Kamadeva as Prostitute (uncredited) |
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Mario Passante as Waiter (uncredited) |
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Anna Primula as Gelsomina's Mother (uncredited) |
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Alexandre Trannoy as Juggler (uncredited) |
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Goffredo Unger as Man Restraining Zampano from Attacking (uncredited) |
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Nazzareno Zamperla as Man Restraining Zampano from Attacking (uncredited) |
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Arnoldo Foà as Zampanò (Voice) (Uncredited) |
| Directing | Federico Fellini | Director |
| Writing | Federico Fellini | Screenplay |
| Writing | Tullio Pinelli | Screenplay |
| Production | Dino De Laurentiis | Producer |
| Production | Carlo Ponti | Producer |
| Sound | Nino Rota | Original Music Composer |
| Camera | Otello Martelli | Director of Photography |
| Writing | Federico Fellini | Story |
| Writing | Tullio Pinelli | Story |
| Writing | Tullio Pinelli | Dialogue |
| Writing | Ennio Flaiano | Co-Writer |
| Directing | Moraldo Rossi | First Assistant Director |
| Directing | Paolo Nuzzi | Second Assistant Director |
| Directing | Narciso Vicario | Script Supervisor |
| Sound | Rinaldo Boggio | Sound |
| Sound | Franco Ferrara | Conductor |
| Art | Mario Ravasco | Production Design |
| Art | Enrico Cervelli | Art Direction |
| Costume & Make-Up | Dante Trani | Makeup Artist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Margherita Marinari | Costume Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Eligio Trani | Makeup Artist |
| Sound | Aldo Calpini | Sound |
| Camera | Roberto Gerardi | Camera Operator |
| Editing | Lina Caterini | Assistant Editor |
| Editing | Leo Catozzo | Editor |
| Camera | Carlo Carlini | Director of Photography |
| Production | Luigi Giacosi | Production Coordinator |
| Production | Danilo Fallani | Production Supervisor |
| Production | Giorgio Morra | Production Supervisor |
| Production | Angelo Cittadini | Production Supervisor |
| Camera | A. Piatti | Still Photographer |