La strada (1954) The Criterion Collection

4.5 (124) · € 22.00 · In Magazzino

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. The infinitely expressive Masina registers both childlike wonder and heartbreaking despair as Gelsomina, loyal companion to the traveling strongman Zampanò (Anthony Quinn, in a toweringly physical performance), whose callousness and brutality gradually wear down her gentle spirit. Winner of the very first Academy Award for Best Foreign-Language Film, La strada possesses the purity and timeless resonance of a fable and remains one of cinema’s most exquisitely moving visions of humanity struggling to survive in the face of life’s cruelties.Restored by the Criterion Collection in collaboration with The Film Foundation and the Cineteca di Bologna. Restoration funding provided by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.

Best Buy: Essential Art House: La Strada [Criterion Collection] [DVD] [1954]

La strada (1954) The Criterion Collection

La strada (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray] : Giulietta Masina, Anthony Quinn, Richard Basehart, Aldo Silvani, Marcella Rovena, Livia Venturini, Pietro Ceccarelli, Yami Kamedeva, Mario Passante, Anna Primula, Federico Fellini, Carlo Ponti

Federico Fellini's Oscar-winning study of members of a travelling circus troupe stars Anthony Quinn as strongman Zampan, and Giulietta Masina as Gelsomina, the young woman sold to him by her mother. The physical and emotional abuse Gelsomina suffers at the hands of the brutal Zampan forces her to find solace with a good-hearted clown (Richard Basehart), leading to a devastating tragedy. With Aldo Silvani, Marcella Rovere, Livia Venturini. 108 min.