Nights of CabiriaIn a role for which she won Best Actress at Cannes, esteemed actress, collaborator and wife of Fellini, Giulietta Masina, plays a naïve streetwalker befallen by hardships that cannot extinguish her faith.
Influenced by Chaplin's renowned Depression-era classic City Lights and co-written by Pier Paolo Pasolini, this is the last of the director's neo-realist "pre-Felliniesque" works.
In its most transformative moments, this Oscar-winner for Best Foreign Language Film provides tantalising glimpses of the visual freedom and expressiveness that was to come in Fellini's later work.
