Tribute to Eva Zaoralová 2022 / La Strada / Italy 1954
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.
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)
108 min / Black & white, DCP
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
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).
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