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La Strada
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Discover this La Strada Poster, Federico Fellini's masterpiece which takes you on a poignant journey through Italy, between laughter and tears. Immerse yourself in the poetic universe of this cult film and let yourself be carried away by the emotion. This cinematographic work is a true ode to life and love, carried by endearing and touching characters. The director tells the story of Gelsomina, a naive and simple young woman, who is forced to work for Zampanò, a gruff and solitary acrobat. Together, they travel the roads of Italy and meet different people, each more colorful than the last. The film is imbued with melancholy, poetry and tenderness. Fellini offers us a visual and emotional journey through Italy in the 1950s, between picturesque settings and moving scenes. Actors Giulietta Masina and Anthony Quinn deliver remarkable performances, carried by captivating music by Nino Rota.
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Description of this La Strada Poster
La Strada is a 1954 drama film directed by Federico Fellini.
It is the work that gave the director great international notoriety, who in 1957 won the Oscar for best foreign language film in the 29th edition (the year in which this award category was established). The film was then selected among the 100 Italian films to save.
Gelsomina is a fragile and probably slightly mentally handicapped girl who lives in conditions of extreme poverty with her widowed mother and her younger brothers. One day, Zampanò arrives in the village, a brutal acrobat who, to earn his living, carries his improbable shows through the poorest lands of a nation like Italy, still peasant and degraded. The man had already taken Rosa, sister of Gelsomina, who died suddenly; at the man's request, the mother also sells the second daughter to earn a minimum amount of money.
Gelsomina follows Zampanò, who teaches her to play the trumpet and involves her as an auctioneer in his shows. Gelsomina's joviality and naivety do not serve to attenuate Zampanò's terrible character, in which the barbaric instinct for survival guides every action: often the man leaves her alone to waste the little money earned on wine and wine. women, and just as often she runs away, however, always ending up coming back to him.
Gelsomina is drawn into this adventure by coming into contact with poor and grotesque realities; his path soon crosses that of a young acrobat, defined by all as "Matto", with a much more serene character than that of Zampanò, as well as much more beautiful. At one point, the three end up working together in the same circus, where the madman begins to make fun of Zampanò: however, he does not understand the irony, revealing himself to be ignorant as a shoe (phrase often used in the film) and begins a fight, after which Zampanò is put in prison. Gelsomina would have the opportunity to leave her master and join the circus but she finds herself torn by the doubt of not counting anything without him: the madman then teaches her that all things in this world have their importance and thus persuades her to return of Zampanò to try to soften his grumpy and insolent character.
Zampanò is released and the two set off again on their journey, ending up in a convent where the nuns realize the abuse that the man is carrying out on the girl; They offer to stay with them but she, strengthened by the madman's words, refuses again. A few days later, the two find Matto and Zampanò, still furious from the circus, hits him with several punches during a fight which is also witnessed by an impietritic Gelsomina. The madman, about to notice the broken wristwatch in the fight, collapses and dies.
The acrobat is forced to hide the body by throwing it under a bridge; Jasmine, upset by what he saw, begins to manifest an indefinable, inconsolable disturbance: during the shows he continues to repeat that Zampanò killed the madman, she does not want him to come near her, and in short flashes of lucidity, he tells his master how she remained close to him thanks to the madman's intercession.
Zampanò, after caring for the girl for a short time, cannot bear the fact that Gelsomina continually remembers the crime he committed and decides to abandon her along a deserted road to continue wandering alone in Italy.
Many years pass: Zampanò has joined another circus and, on break in a town, he hears a girl humming Jasmine's song to herself: she discovers that the girl had arrived in that town, seriously ill, and in the rare moments of lucidity that the song had played with its trumpet; later the girl was dead. Distraught by the news, Zampanò gets drunk and provokes another fight with his new circus colleagues, who drive him away; alone and inconsolable, he cries out in despair by the sea.
