You've been hearing about a great picture called La Strada (The Road)...now it is here!
Awards: Won 1 Oscar. Another 11 wins & 4 nominations.
Production: Criterion Collection
A care-free girl is sold to a traveling entertainer, consequently enduring physical and emotional pain along the way.
A traveling strongman, Zampano, repays the death of Rosa, his assistant, by offering the same job to little sister Gelsomina, whose mother receives compensation in return.
Sex between a man and a woman is implied.
One of the main characters has a small circus wagon. On one side of the wagon is a drawing of a mermaid with bare breasts.
violence
A man forces a woman into the back of a van, rape is implied.
A man threatens another man with a knife and struggles with other men.
A man hits another man several times. The second man collapses and dies. His body is dumped in a ditch.
profanity
English subtitles have infrequent uses of milder expletives (h*ll, b**t*rd, d**n, etc.).
