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- Gelsomina is a soulful young girl who is brought on by Zampano to be his traveling assistant. She becomes a clown in his road show, and though he brutalizes her she stays by his side throughout all of it. She dies after Zampano abandons her on the side of the road after he has killed The Fool and she cannot forget what she has seen.
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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.
Mar 20, 2020 · Such is the case for Giulietta Masina as the character of Gelsomina in Federico Fellini 1954 film La Strada. We came very close to not having Masina star in the picture, and looking back at the film it’s hard to picture anyone else in the role. Masina isn’t just playing Gelsomina, she is Gelsomina.
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May 31, 2012 · Masina played Gelsomina, a young girl sold to a circus strongman by her mother. She begins her new life on the road – ‘la strada’ – as a servant to Zampano, the strong man. He is a brutal figure, who mistreats Gelsomina, even though she adores him.
May 31, 2024 · The characters of Zampano and Gelsomina embodied the contradictory archetypes in the film La Strada. Their contrasting personalities served as a metaphor for the world and its dichotomy.
Zampano is a vagabond strong man who comes to purchase Gelsomina as his traveling assistant after her sister, Rosa has mysteriously died. He is the embodiment of brutality throughout the film and is more animal than man. His nature leads to him killing The Fool and abandoning Gelsomina on the road.
Zampanò, a violent-tempered man, makes his living as an itinerant fire-swallower. He buys Gelsomina, a naïve young woman for 10,000 lire, and she becomes his assistant. She’s forced to become his lover, but she tries to run away, as she is constantly abused by him.
Award-winning Italian actress who earned international recognition for her portrayal of Gelsomina in La Strada . Born Giulia Anna Masina on February 22, 1920, in San Giorgio di Piano, Italy; died of lung cancer on March 23, 1994, in Rome; youngest of four children of Gaetano Masina (erstwhile first violinist with Milan's Teatro Scala); grew up ...
