The Road (film, 1954)

Zampano is a traveling circus athlete with a corona number - breaking the chain on the chest.

As an assistant, he buys a teenage girl, Dzhelsomin, from her mother and teaches Dzhelsomin to announce the number and accompany him by playing the drum and trumpet.

Zampano used to solve everything by force. He hits Jelsomine and flirts with other women in front of her.

Once they met a traveling circus and got a job there.

Ropewalker Matto constantly teases Zampano and thus makes him furious. After another ridicule, the strong man rushed at Matto with a knife. Zampano was imprisoned, after which they were both expelled from the circus.

Matto talks to Dzhelsomina and invites her to choose between him, circus and Dzampano. She stays with Zampano.

One day they meet Matto on a back road. Zampano beats the enemy, and it ends with the death of a tightrope walker. Strong sweeps away traces of crime.

Gelsomina hard going through the death of Matto. After a while, Zampano leaves her.

A few years later the strongman returns to this area and learns that Dzhelsomina died soon after his departure.

Federico Fellini wrote the screenplay for the film in 1949 , but he was actually able to start shooting only at the end of 1953. Starring Federico Fellini shot his spouse Juliet Mazina , for whom it was the first significant role, as well as Anthony Quinn . The film was a great success.

• Juliet Mazina - Dzhelsomina
• Anthony Quinn - Dzampano
• Richard Basehart - Matto
• Aldo Silvani - Signor Dzhiraffa
• Marcella Rovere
• Libya Venturini

The painting won the Silver Lion Venice Film Festival (1954), the Oscar (1957), the Bodil Award (1956) and several other awards.

Awards

• 1957 - Academy Award
  • Best Foreign Film - Dino De Laurentis , Carlo Ponti
• 1954 - Venice Film Festival Award
  • Silver Lion - Federico Fellini

Nominations

• 1957 - Academy Award
  • Best Screenplay - Federico Fellini , Tullio Pinelli
• 1956 BAFTA Award
  • Best movie
  • Best Foreign Actress - Juliet Mazina
• 1954 - Venice Film Festival Award
  • Golden Lion - Federico Fellini

• The film also won the New York Critics Award for Best Film of the Year, two Silver Ribbon Awards by the Italian Journalists Syndicate for Best Film and Best Director, and the European Film Academy's Bodil Award for Best Non-American Film of the Year. In total, the film has collected more than fifty awards.

• In the Soviet hire the film was released in 1967 under the name "They wandered the roads."

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