The film centers on Gelsomina (Giulietta Masina, Fellini’s wife and frequent collaborator), a “simple-minded” young woman who ...

In the same 2013 interview, Pope Francis named Federico Fellini’s 1954 Oscar-winning work La Strada, starring Giulietta Masina as fragile protagonist Gelsomina who is abused by brutish circus ...

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