31 October, 2023 marks the 30th anniversary of the death of Federico Fellini, the world-famous filmmaker.

In collaboration with CinemaItaliaUK, we pay tribute to the celebrated director 30 years after his death, with the screening of the Oscar winning La Strada.

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.

Cast:
Anthony Quinn, Giulietta Masina, Richard Basehart