Saturday, August 24, 2013

La Strada

Also Known As: La Strada

Company: Ponti-De Laurentiis Cinematografica

Aspect Ratio: 1.37 : 1

Budget: n/A

Full Cast: Anthony Quinn / Giulietta Masina / Richard Basehart / Aldo Silvani / Marcella Rovere / Livia Venturini / Gustavo Giorgi / Yami Kamadeva / Mario Passante / Anna Primula / Goffredo Unger / Nazzareno Zamperla

Cast and Character: Anthony Quinn as Zampanò / Giulietta Masina as Gelsomina / Richard Basehart as Il Matto - The Fool / Aldo Silvani as Signor Giraffa / Marcella Rovere as La Vedova / Livia Venturini as La Suorina

Trailer: n/A

Color: Black and White

Countries: Italy

Creators: n/A

Description: A carefree girl is sold to a traveling entertainer, consequently enduring physical and emotional pain along the way.

Directors: Federico Fellini

Genres: Drama

Languages: Italian

Location: Bagnoregio, Viterbo, Lazio, Italy

MPAA: TV-PG

Opening Weekend: n/A

Plot: Sad story of a waif, Gelsomina, who is sold by her mother to Zampano for 10,000 lire and a few kilos of food. Zampano is a traveling showman who exhibits feats of strength by breaking a chain wrapped around his chest. He performs in village squares and then passes the hat for whatever the normally small crowd is prepared to give. He teaches Gelsomina a drum roll as part of his introduction. He doesn't treat her well and when she tries to run away, he beats her. They eventually join a small traveling circus where they meet Il Matto but a disagreement leads to tragedy. Zampano eventually abandons the girl and it's only many years later that he learns of her fate.

Poster: posters/0047528.jpg

Rating: 8.1

Release Date: 16 July 1956 (USA)

Runtime: 108 min

Seasons: n/A

Sound Mix: Mono

Tagline: You've been hearing about a great picture called La Strada (The Road)...now it is here!

Title: La strada

Trailer:

Url: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047528/

Votes: 30,490

Writers: Federico Fellini / Tullio Pinelli

Year: 1954


La strada got rated 8.1.

About the movie: Sad story of a waif, Gelsomina, who is sold by her mother to Zampano for 10,000 lire and a few kilos of food. Zampano is a traveling showman who exhibits feats of strength by breaking a chain wrapped around his chest. He performs in village squares and then passes the hat for whatever the normally small crowd is prepared to give. He teaches Gelsomina a drum roll as part of his introduction. He doesn't treat her well and when she tries to run away, he beats her. They eventually join a small traveling circus where they meet Il Matto but a disagreement leads to tragedy. Zampano eventually abandons the girl and it's only many years later that he learns of her fate.


Rocky got rated 8.1.

About the movie: Rocky Balboa is a struggling boxer trying to make the big time, working as a debt collector for a pittance. When heavyweight champion Apollo Creed visits Philadelphia, his managers want to set up an exhibition match between Creed and a struggling boxer, touting the fight as a chance for a "nobody" to become a "somebody". The match is supposed to be easily won by Creed, but someone forgot to tell Rocky, who sees this as his only shot at the big time.


Slumdog Millionaire got rated 8.1.

About the movie: The story of Jamal Malik, an 18 year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, who is about to experience the biggest day of his life. With the whole nation watching, he is just one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India's Kaun Banega Crorepati? (Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?) But when the show breaks for the night, police arrest him on suspicion of cheating; how could a street kid know so much? Desperate to prove his innocence, Jamal tells the story of his life in the slum where he and his brother grew up, of their adventures together on the road, of vicious encounters with local gangs, and of Latika, the girl he loved and lost. Each chapter of his story reveals the key to the answer to one of the game show's questions. Each chapter of Jamal's increasingly layered story reveals where he learned the answers to the show's seemingly impossible quizzes. But one question remains a mystery: what is this young man with no apparent desire for riches really doing on ...


Once Upon a Time in America got rated 8.4.

About the movie: Epic tale of a group of Jewish gangsters in New York, from childhood, through their glory years during prohibition, and their meeting again 35 years later.

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