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La strada

film by Fellini [1954]

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comedy in film

    discussed in biography

    • Federico Fellini
      In Federico Fellini: Major works

      With La strada (1954; “The Road”), Fellini returned to the world of showmen. It starred Anthony Quinn as Zampanò, a brutish but phoney itinerant "strong man," and Masina as the waif who loves him. The film was shot on desolate locations between Viterbo and Abruzzi, mean…

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    music by Rota

    • In La strada

      >film of the same name by Federico Fellini. Rota’s music was one of the relatively rare European film scores to attract wide attention in the United States as well.

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    Oscar for best foreign-language film, 1956

      production by De Laurentiis

      • In Dino De Laurentiis

        …films such as Federico Fellini’s La strada (1954) and Le notti di Cabiria (1957; The Nights of Cabiria), both of which won Academy Awards for best foreign-language film. In 1964 he opened a studio, Dinocittà, where he made several epics; their lack of success, combined with increasingly stringent nationalist restrictions…

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      role of Quinn

      • Anthony Quinn (left) and Alan Bates in Zorba the Greek (1964).
        In Anthony Quinn

        …of which was Federico Fellini’s La strada (1954), in which he gave one of his finest performances. Quinn won his second Oscar for Lust for Life (1956) and went on to roles in the memorable motion pictures Wild Is the Wind (1957), The Savage Innocents (1959), The Guns of Navarone

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      Quick Facts
      Born:
      March 5, 1910, Pescara, Italy
      Died:
      Nov. 20, 1972, Rome (aged 62)

      Ennio Flaiano (born March 5, 1910, Pescara, Italy—died Nov. 20, 1972, Rome) was an Italian screenwriter, playwright, novelist, journalist, and drama critic who was especially noted for his social satires. He became a leading figure of the Italian motion-picture industry after World War II, collaborating with writer Tullio Pinelli on the early films of writer and director Federico Fellini.

      Trained as an architect, Flaiano started a career in journalism, contributing critical essays to the magazines Oggi, L’europeo, Mondo, and L’espresso. His first play, La guerra spiegata ai poveri (1946; “War Explained to the Poor”), displays his sharp, subtle humour. His first novel, Tempo di uccidere (1947; A Time to Kill), won him the Strega Prize in 1947. He began writing film scripts during World War II and infused a sense of realism into such Fellini films as La strada (1954; “The Road”), La dolce vita (1960; “The Sweet Life”), and Otto e mezzo (1963; 81/2).

      Flaiano’s other books include the short-story collections Diario notturno (1956; “Night Journal”) and Una e una notte (1959; “One and One Night”), as well as the play La conversazione continuamente interrotta (1972; “A Continually Interrupted Conversation”).

      This article was most recently revised and updated by Encyclopaedia Britannica.