La Strada

Director: Federico Fellini, Federico Fellini, Federico Fellini, Federico Fellini, Federico Fellini, Federico Fellini

1954 / 108min / DCP

The first recipient of the Best Foreign Language Oscar, Federico Fellini’s beautiful, emotionally harrowing arthouse smash tells the tale of a surly, drunken circus strongman (Anthony Quinn), the young assistant who he treats as chattel (Fellini’s wife, Giulietta Masina, radiating forbearing pathos), and the Fool who tries to offer her a better life (Richard Basehart), only to risk his own.

Restored in 4K by the Criterion Collection and The Film Foundation at Cineteca di Bologna’s L’Immagine Ritrovata laboratory, from a 35mm dupe negative preserved by Beta Film GmbH. Restoration funding provided by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Presented in DCP 4K.