Nights of Cabiria

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Nights of Cabiria
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NR,1hr 51min
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October 28, 1957
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Lopert Pictures Corporation
Synopsis: Nights of Cabiria opens with Cabiria (Giulietta Masina) and her boyfriend playfully embracing by the seaside -- and then he shoves her into the water and steals her purse. Cabiria is revived by some local boys and runs off by herself, shouting. What follows is a series of similarly humiliating episodes, in which the defiantly positive prostitute Cabiria is hurt, but never broken. She gets picked up by movie star Alberto Lazzati (Amedeo Nazzari, doing a self-parody) and taken to his palatial estate. ... Full Synopsis
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A touching tragi-comic portrait of a Roman prostitute, Nights of Cabiria is a showcase for the talents of Giulietta Masina, director Federico Fellini's wife. With movements that echo Chaplin's Little Tramp, the diminutive Masina is a tough-talking working girl, ready to start fighting the moment she is revived from a near-drowning incident at the hands of her boyfriend. She is not afraid to do dancehall ... Full Review
Featured Cast
Alberto Lazzati, movie star
Wanda Cabiria's Friend
Oscar D'Onofrio, Accountant
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