Archive of films Road / La Strada

Italy
1954, 108 min

Section: Tribute to Eva Zaoralová
Year: 2022

The Road, which brought worldwide fame to Federico Fellini (represented by an Academy Award and dozens of other prizes), is today familiar to almost everyone interested in the art of film. Centering on hapless Gelsomina, brutish Zampanò, and the scornful Il Matto (The Fool), the film still touches the heartstrings, impresses with its aesthetic beauty and powerful performances, and provokes a variety of interpretations.


Synopsis

For Fellini, this tragic and poetic story of the coarse Zampanò, the somewhat feeble-minded but perceptive Gelsomina, and the provocative Il Matto represented the transition from neorealism to his own, distinctive conception of film expression. Like the neorealists, he depicts the social realism of the rural environment of his itinerant circus artists, yet, in his symbols and references to myths, he lays emphasis on their private worlds. In Italy The Road was initially slated by the intellectual Left; however, the filmmaker also fought against Christian interpretations. This profoundly compassionate and moving film garnered world recognition and made international celebrities of both the director and his wife Giulietta Masina, who plays Gelsomina. The Road remains one of the most treasured works in film history to this day.

Eva Zaoralová (2012)

About the director

Federico Fellini

Federico Fellini (1920, Rimini - 1993, Rome). Selected filmography: The Road (1954), Nights of Cabiria (1956), La dolce vita (1960), 8 1/2 (1962), Juliet of the Spirits (1965), Satyricon (1968), The Clowns (1970), Roma (1972), Amarcord (1973), Casanova (1976), Orchestra Rehearsal (1978), And the Ship Sails On (1983), Ginger & Fred (1985), Interview (1987).

Contacts

Beta Cinema GmbH
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Cineteca di Bologna
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Italy
Tel: +39 051 601 8607
E-mail: [email protected]

About the film

Black & white, DCP

Section: Tribute to Eva Zaoralová
   
Director: Federico Fellini
Screenplay: Federico Fellini, Tullio Pinelli, Ennio Flaiano
Dir. of Photography: Otello Martelli, Carlo Carlini
Music: Nino Rota
Editor: Leo Cattozzo
Producer: Dino De Laurentiis, Carlo Ponti
Production: Ponti-De Laurentiis Cinematografica
Cast: Giulietta Masina, Anthony Quinn, Richard Basehart, Aldo Silvani, Marcella Rovere, Livia Venturini
Sales: Beta Cinema GmbH
Contact: Cineteca di Bologna
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