La Strada is a 1954 Italian drama directed by Federico Fellini, following Gelsomina, a simple young woman sold by her mother to Zampano, a brutish traveling strongman, and forced to join his itinerant road show. Their difficult and often cruel relationship forms the center of a film Fellini described as a complete catalogue of his own mythological world. It marked Fellini's decisive break from Italian neorealism toward a more personal, symbolic style, and it won the first Academy Award ever given for Best Foreign Language Film, in 1957.
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Did any other Fellini film also win the foreign-language Academy Award?
Yes. Nights of Cabiria (1957) also won the Academy Award for best foreign-language film.
Yes. Britannica notes that both La Strada (1954) and Fellini's Nights of Cabiria (1957) won Academy Awards for best foreign-language film, so Federico Fellini was honored in that category for two of his films.
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La Strada (English: "The Road") is a 1954 Italian road tragedy film directed by Federico Fellini and co-written by Fellini, Tullio Pinelli and Ennio Flaiano.
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is a 1954 Italian road tragedy film directed by Federico Fellini
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La Strada is a 1954 Italian drama directed by Federico Fellini, following Gelsomina, a simple young woman sold by her mother to Zampano, a brutish traveling strongman, and forced to join his itinerant road show.
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La Strada (English: "The Road") is a 1954 Italian road tragedy film directed by Federico Fellini and co-written by Fellini, Tullio Pinelli and Ennio Flaiano.
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La Strada (English: "The Road") is a 1954 Italian road tragedy film directed by Federico Fellini and co-written by Fellini, Tullio Pinelli and Ennio Flaiano.
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