Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 115 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- Italian
- Country
- Italy
Why tonight?
- In Italian — subtitles on.
The story
When Gelsomina, a naïve young woman, is purchased from her impoverished mother by brutish circus strongman Zampanò to be his wife and partner, she loyally endures her husband's coldness and abuse as they travel the Italian countryside performing together. Soon Zampanò must deal with his jealousy and conflicted feelings about Gelsomina when she finds a kindred spirit in Il Matto, the carefree circus fool, and contemplates leaving Zampanò.
- prison
- dying and death
- rage and hate
- unsociability
- circus
- authority
- in love with enemy
- wave
- sadness
- road trip
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Giulietta Masina
Gelsomina
Anthony Quinn
Zampanò
Richard Basehart
Il 'Matto'
Aldo Silvani
Il Signor Giraffa
- Marcella Rovere — La Vedova
- Livia Venturini — La Suorina
- Pietro Ceccarelli — Innkeeper (uncredited)
- Giovanna Galli — Prostitute at the Inn (uncredited)
- Gustavo Giorgi — (uncredited)
- Yami Kamadeva — Prostitute (uncredited)
- Mario Passante — Waiter (uncredited)
- Anna Primula — Gelsomina's Mother (uncredited)
- Alexandre Trannoy — Juggler (uncredited)
- Goffredo Unger — Man Restraining Zampano from Attacking (uncredited)
- Nazzareno Zamperla — Man Restraining Zampano from Attacking (uncredited)
- Directed
- Federico Fellini
- Written
- Tullio Pinelli, Federico Fellini
Production
- Studio
- Ponti-De Laurentiis Cinematografica
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
