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La Strada
MEANRANK
84/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #175
- IMDb #362
- Google retired #553
- Rotten Tomatoes #97
- Letterboxd #300
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #203
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- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #271
- Criticker #158
- Kinopoisk #307
- AlloCiné #441
- Trakt #724
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Mostly agreed
Lowest is Criticker on 72, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 97. Critics average 97, everyone else 83.
See the most agreed on films →A simple-minded young woman is sold by her impoverished mother to a brutish traveling strongman, Zampanò, to be his assistant and wife. They travel the Italian countryside performing his crude street act. She endures his harsh treatment with naive sweetness, until their lives are complicated by the arrival of The Fool, a gentle and talented circus performer who shows her kindness and challenges Zampanò's cruelty.
Details
- Director
- Federico Fellini
- Writers
- Federico Fellini, Tullio Pinelli
- Released
- 23 September 1954
- Country
- Italy
- Language
- Italian
- Runtime
- 108 min
- Rated
- NR
- Awards
- 9 wins, 4 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 13 →2 major awards won · 9 wins from 13 nominations across 8 ceremonies
| Academy Awards 1954 | Best Foreign Language Film | Dino De Laurentiis, Carlo Ponti | Winner |
| Venice Film Festival 1954 | Silver Lion | Federico Fellini | Winner |
| Academy Awards 1954 | Best Writing, Best Original Screenplay | Federico Fellini, Tullio Pinelli and Ennio Flaiano | Nominee |
| Venice Film Festival 1954 | Golden Lion | Federico Fellini | Nominee |
| Blue Ribbon Awards 1954 | Best Foreign Language Film | Federico Fellini | Winner |
| Bodil Awards 1954 | Best European Film | Federico Fellini | Winner |
| British Academy of Film and Television Arts 1954 | Best Film from any Source | Federico Fellini | Nominee |
| British Academy of Film and Television Arts 1954 | Best Foreign Actress | Giulietta Masina | Nominee |
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13 awards — La Strada
×| Best Foreign Language Film | Dino De Laurentiis, Carlo Ponti | Winner |
| Best Writing, Best Original Screenplay | Federico Fellini, Tullio Pinelli and Ennio Flaiano | Nominee |
| Silver Lion | Federico Fellini | Winner |
| Golden Lion | Federico Fellini | Nominee |
| Silver Ribbon; Best Director | Federico Fellini | Winner |
| Silver Ribbon; Best Producer | Dino De Laurentiis, Carlo Ponti | Winner |
| Silver Ribbon; Best Story/Screenplay | Dino De Laurentiis, Tullio Pinelli | Winner |
| Best Foreign Language Film | Federico Fellini | Winner |
| Best European Film | Federico Fellini | Winner |
| Best Foreign Language Film | Federico Fellini | Winner |
| Best Foreign Language Film | Federico Fellini | Winner |
| Best Film from any Source | Federico Fellini | Nominee |
| Best Foreign Actress | Giulietta Masina | Nominee |