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Walt Disney expressed serious interest in creating an animated feature based on Gelsomina, and there was interest from doll manufacturers and sweets firms to use her name. "I could have lived on Gelsomina for twenty years," Fellini said.
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- Drama
- Federico Fellini
- 1956-07-16
Gelsomina, an apparently somewhat simple-minded, dreamy young woman, learns that her sister Rosa has died after going on the road with the strongman Zampanò. Now the man has returned a year later to ask her mother if Gelsomina will take Rosa's place.
Sep 6, 2021 · Starring the endlessly charming Giulietta Masina as a young, naive girl called Gelsomina, La Strada chronicles the absurd brutality of life by following Gelsomina’s misadventures after she is sold to an abusive strongman named Zampanò (played by Anthony Quinn) by her own mother.
Mar 20, 2020 · Gelsomina’s story is a tragic fable of the perils of poverty, upon the arrival of Zampanò and the news of her elder sister’s death, Gelsomina finds herself essentially being sold for 10,000 lire. Her role in society is all driven not only by her class and social status but by her gender as well.
Mar 18, 2023 · The La Strada score has enough saccharine swells and lighter changes for one of the fairy-dusted Disney films coming out of the US in the 1950s (Walt Disney himself floated the idea of a Gelsomina cartoon during Fellini and Masina’s visit to his new magic park).
Fool also suggests, maybe half-sarcastically, that Zampano is simply fond of Gelsomina. Gelsomina, with a new perspective, clearly tries to look at Zampano in a more optimistic light but it's short-lived when Zampano kills Fool, leaving Gelsomina broken.
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Aug 9, 2021 · Unable to move on from Il Matto’s death and her feelings for Zampano, the viewer finds out at the very end of the movie that Gelsomina lived out the rest of her days with a welcoming family, before succumbing to death.
