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  • this was definitely one of his more accessible films for those who don't usually watch these kind of films, it was beautiful and this last scene broke my heart, so well acted, god, to think of the emotions the actor must have had to conjure up to show this

  • two peoples doesn't have fellings

  • Oh my.... The last scene was incredibly sad. The one scene out of the entire movie that made me cry, well, almost. I already knew the end, I have a thing for spoilers, but it certainly ruins the effect. However, I still had tears in my eyes.

  • Gut-wrenching genius.

  • Anthony is maybe the best actor after Robert De Niro. This is only one example, but Barrabas, Zorba the Greek and several other films makes the grade to this great actor. We miss you, ANTHONY

  • Great man, great actor, this scene has broken my heart everytime I have seen this pic. He is US looking for an answer, overwelmed by pain and loneliness, confusion at the end of our lives. No actor has ever been so good at axpresing so powerful all those feelings in such a short time. God save Quiin!

  • In the last scene, he becomes a human being, able to feel love, loss and remorse. It took the death of an innocent girl, but he finally became a human at the end. That, for me, is the power of the last scene, his acknowledgement of his humanness.

  • Fellini likes pulling the strings of everyone. dont be fooled.

  • This is such a powerful scene

  • Das Lied,es klingt schon so lang....

  • I'm a long time fan of Italian neorialism

    there will never be a similar era for the film industry again.

    there're no more Fellini's, Rosselini's, De Sica's or Visconti's. nor Nino Rota's...

    comparing those films to what they show today is an insult to our inteligence...

    I strongly recomend to see "Rocco & Brothers". "Bellissima". "Bicycle Thives"

    & similar French films from same era. you'll see the difference...

  • RIP Dino De Laurentiis

  • @susankhamilton I second that.

  • 道’ 生きる’ 東京物語’ は万人必見の映画。

  • Ce n'est uniquement pas Zampano qui pleure. c'est toute l'humainté qui pleure. Ce sont tous les hommes qui maltraitent les femmes qui pleurent.

    et moi, je pleure tout le temps je pense à cet extrait !!!!!!!!!!

  • @BermudaRao il ne s'agit pas uniquement d'hommes qui maltraitent les femmes... c'est l'histoire de la solitude et l'impossibilité de vivre la tendresse que la vie nous offre parfois

  • Benjamin Ferrera, Rogelio Quintana. Daniel Sakuntala , Truca Perez, La quijotesca

    Cinemateca de Cuba......y Quinn Fellini Masina y ........

  • Fellini is in a class of his own

  • ...erinyes....

  • ...nemesis.........

  • @kostgian

    Grazie...AFFASCINANTE!!!

  • I watched this film again for the first time in a long while last night. I think it is nothing short of amazing. I am hypnotized by Quinn while he is in the hands of Felini. This pure genius, the acting and the directing.

  • Quinn never made a better movie! the whole portrayal of Italy during this time is so true, little people losing their humanity under the everyday burdens of hunger and poverty and ignorance and yes I am old enough to remember this stage of european history.

  • I would have to say this is one of the greatest films ever made. Many times, I watch this and The Bicycle Thief on the same day...talk about emotional whallop.

  • Magnifico!!!!Grazie Kostgian per l'invio!!!

  • here seems that tullio pinelli ,ennio flaiano together with federico fellini crossingover with balzac/dostojevsky and sigmund freud!

  • @kostgian Very touching scene... and the dramatic music corresponds with it so well...... Outstanding actor, impressive movie in every way! Thanks so much Kostas for sharing!

  • @AnaJilK in the beginning of this final scene,the music soundtrack is absent,because we must feel naked the soul-drama of the hero...but after the 2,05 start simultaneously with the nino rota,s music an introducing by the magician fellini of moving the camera BEHINDE AND HIGH slowly from the local tragedy-land teaching us the human-soul tortures by IMPRUDENCE!

  • @kostgian Un vero capolavoro caro Kostas, il grande Quinn chi dimentica la sua Danza di Zorba??? Un caro saluto K

  • @MrAznavour65 et la musica di nino rota!giulietta masina qui indimenticabile![vista per primo comme studente in 1973 a firenze!]

  • Uno de los mejores finales, que malditamente bella es esta peli.

  • un capolavoro assoluto...grazie bar..grazie michèlle!!:))*****

  • Film magnifique, à jamais gravé dans nos mémoires, film qui fait partie du patrimoine mondial !

  • he regrets for living her alone on that cold winter day by the fire place..... she was the only one that really loved him...

  • okay, i confess i have never heard of this film until earlier this year and while watching it i didnt know what would be in the last scene. but when i saw it, i was literally stunned by its power. i cant remember a scene in the movies, especially that captured such monumental heartbreak, regret and loneliness. what was really devestating was knowing i have played that scene in my life too many times, it is terribly familiar.

  • i agree completely, i didn't expect the ending to be so devastating, it's really quite a simple and straightforward scene, shot without any camera tricks, the actor just does such a great job, one must wonder what he had to go through to be able to cry like..that.

  • Non dice nulla, ma dice tutto.

  • master scene for tony forever in his history

  • does anyone know why he ditches gelsomina??

  • "does anyone know why he ditches gelsomina??"

    i confess i usually dont "get" artsy type films but gelsomina became a bit unstable at seeing the fiddler killed, or rather she would just started talking about the killing under her breathe and seemed to be in daze. i guess you would call it post tramadic stress these days. anyway quinn couldnt keep her quiet and i think he felt guilty at being reminded at what he had done. and so he left her while she was sleep.

  • hmmm... 500 words or less huh? ok...

    to "get" this, first consider context - post war impoverished Italy. Gelsomina is sold to Zampano for, what her mother considers to be, an act of goodwill. Gelsomina, a simple girl, bonds with her master and does little to question him. Looking for purpose in her own life, she finds it via a short conversation with the fool. Surpassing an abusive relationship, the finds purpose serving Zampano. Her spirit is destroyed along with the fool.

  • ...When Zampano finally acknowledges this tragedy, he is overcome by guilt and regret. Like a beaten dog, Zampano exaggerates his primal prowess and exerts his will on everyone he encounters, particularly women. His epiphany is that of love-lost. Who could love a man who sought to project his own anger onto those he held close? Why did I treat her like that? I killed her. These are the final thoughts flowing through Zampano at the finale of La Strada.

  • ¡Viva Anthony! Orgullo de México.

    Una de las mejores escenas en la historia del cine.

  • such a peace o a movie, great, muss see movie!!! If you see the movie, you understand, his tears...

  • one of the greatest ending scenes (besides 400 blows) and best films ever!

  • You killed the fool...

  • I'm not sure if it's regret Quinn's character, Zampano, feels at this point. It's more like utter loneliness. He finally realizes that he is nothing without Gelsomina, who supplied him with humanity he never had.

  • I agree. What an incredible actor to cause one to even ponder so deeply what he was feeling. Amazing.

  • The best movie I had ever seen. No doubts about it.

  • Those people Fellini, Masina, Quinn, Nino Rota, those were people who had so much love and soul to give, unfortunately today artists are a mirror of what the world is nowadays, violence, bad taste, indifference,

  • @vergoti20 idiot, the world was a very bad and evil place in the past too. it's your fucking dumb imagination.

  • @yowurstnitmare He was talking about popular artists, fool, not the world. The world was always shit, we know that, but there was a time in cinema when artists did a lot more than just reflect that reality with pornographic gracelessness. Your comment is emblematic of the times.

  • @Nikatsu No, what he said is true. I hate this incredibly patronising "Things were better in the old days" attitude. Of course there are still brilliant movies being made, just as there were terrible movies back then. La Strada was released the same year as Devil Girl From Mars, don't pretend it was nothing but profound masterpieces.

  • @vergoti20 ...we still got Pacino, DeNiro, Hopkins, Rourke, even lets say young like Hawke, Washinton..etc...we did lost ''the one'' 2008 God rest his soul...Paul Newman...in the same year George Carlin....

  • @vergoti20 You are absolutely correct....the genius, beauty, elegance, and passion are extinct in this "new" world...so sad....but at least WE witnessed and experienced it, no??? ~ Catalina

  • @vergoti20 God, I'm sick of the whole "THINGS WERE SO MUCH BETTER BACK IN THE GOOD OLD DAYS" line of bullshit. Have you people just forgotten the institutionalized racism, sexism, imperialism, censorship and repression (both political and societal) that existed in every first-world nation a half-century ago?

  • @Kagemusha08 I know, I get so ridiculously annoyed when people start bleating on like that.

  • i agree w others, it is so beautiful how the heartbreaking sadness is conveyed in this scene...it is powerful because it captures something of the regret that we all surely have inside of us to some extent.

  • Zampano !!! Me,too....

  • best i ever see...

  • Where can I watch this film beginning to end w/ english subtitles for free. I must see it for a film class.

  • Try the library.

  • Nobody!!

  • Thank you for forwarding this to me. I will make sure to watch this film all the through. I am actually very fond of black and white films, esp. the darker, morbid, sorrowful story lines. Have you seen All About Eve, Crash? That is a strangely morbid film as well, though not nearly as profound as this.

  • Wjat a great, great film!

  • Excelente actuación de Antony Quinn!

  • after the maltreat of his hapiness ..REMEMBERING HIS VICTIM OF HIS INDIFERENCE [J.MASSINA-GIRL OF ROAD]...that was the poor girl sold by his mother in THE PEDDLER ,SAUVAGE ZAMPANO[A.QUIN]......FINALLY IN A UNFORGETABLE FINISHING SCENE IN ONE COAST[how many in italy?]...the sauvage ZAMPANO F-O-U-N-D H-I-S S-O-U-L!!!!!![ the nocturnes waves ARE HIS CRIES OF repentance?OR the earthquaque of his soul in his usual post?]

  • Thanks Kostas for elucidation -----

  • @kostgian " inoubliable chef-d'oeuvre" ,tant pour le film,que pour la musique et l'interprétation !!!!! *********************

  • i think in la strada and zorbas the greek quinn showed the deepest and highest emotions ever to be seen on screen....fantastic actor...

  • The ending of "La Strada" may be the most memorable in all of film history.

  • I agree. I can't watch this film I am not strong enough.I end devastated, Quinn and Masina both give the male and female cinema performance any actor and actress would dream to play and this divine music !

  • We both feel the same way about this truly wonderful film. The loneliness that Zampano experiences in this final scene is one that I share deeply whenever I see it. I cried the first time I saw it; now I cry only inside. Last night I again viewed "Nights of Cabiria," another Fellini masterpiece . Do you know this film? Near the very end, Cabiria, played by Guilietta Masina, demonstrates the same kind of intense emotion that we saw at the end of "La Strada." Bravo Fellini and Masina!

  • Giulietta Masina performance as Cabiria is perhaps the greatest female performance in cinema history.For shame! it's shameful she didn't win an Oscar academy Award

  • Terrific movie....touched me deeply....I saw this when it was first released and I never forgot it. It took me years before I could find and obtain a copy of my own.

  • This was so sad the first time I saw it I cried for like an hour.

  • Dedico esto a Jose Soroa, Benjamin Ferrera, Rogelio Quintana, la Quijotesca , Daniel Sankunatara, Armando Garcia Galocha, Conchita Bouza, Eduardo Michaelsen. Respirando angustia en la marginal Cuba.

  • Curse you, Zampano. How could you overlook Gelsomina, the only woman that ever cared for you?

  • dedico esto al ajedrecista ( fallecido ) Benjamin Ferrera, al astrologo Alberto Martinez Fuentes ( fallecido en Chicago)

    Cinemateca de Cuba

  • Not a word spoken in this excerpt but more happens here in 2:38 minutes than in a thousand films. They're moving pictures, not talkies.

    Right, jimmyfellatio?

  • Jak to nikt nigdy do końca nie jest stracony :-):-)

    Pamiętam ten film , oglądałam go jako mała dziewczynka i bardzo dobrze zapamietałam.

    Takich filmów się nie zapomina.

    Końcowa scena utkwiła mi w pamięci do końca życia. Wiem że w każdym z nas jest dobro i w nim też było. Wierzę w to.

    Płaczę jak dziecko jak oglądam końcówkę tego filmu.

    Chylę głowę dla mistrza Felliniego jak również dla Massiny i Quiana , którzy stworzyli niezapomniane role.

  • Nunca había llorado en su vida... y ahí en la playa, con él lloramos todos!

  • this movie made a big impression; watching W.A's "sweet and lowdown" only re-affirmed my appreciation of this original.

  • This is one of the most hearbreaking scenes I've seen in my life. This film change my life.. It really it's amazing

  • La strada es una de las obras maestras del cine que deberìa ser enseñada a los jovenes para que las nuevas generaciones tengan mas humanidad y sensibilidad.

    Giulietta Masina, Anthony Quinn y Nino Rota han dejado para siempre momentos de los mas conmovedores que se hayan visto en la historia del cine.

  • NOW THAT'S A CLASSIC!

  • I'm probably the only person in the world who gets this movie

  • hermosa actuacion y grandiosa pelicula

  • Dedico esto a Benjamin Ferrera " Maestro del Ajedrez" y poeta cubano muerto en el exilio. Recordando aquel dia en la Cinemateca de Cuba, la impresion que este film nos dejo

  • Let´s all drink to the death of a clown!!

  • This moment is unforgettable in the film history

  • マシーナが肺癌で他界したのはフェリーニの死から5ヶ月後のこと­であった。

  • beutiful end a mexican actor and a italian movie

  • 为什么这些老电影会这么有魅力呢,真叫人着迷呢

    好喜欢大路啊,很感人,这是值得载入史册的电影!!!

  • M. ♥ :

    Gracias por haberme hablado de esta película. Tenías razón, es hermosaaaa. Me encantó. ¡ Mil gracias amigo italiano ♥ ♥ ♥ !

  • wow great for you

  • hahahahahahaha

  • imbecil

  • One of the greatest films by one of the greatest artists of cinema. What a moment, as Zampano looks up into the night sky, on the shore of the vast ocean, and in his dim mind finally realizes with a kind of existential horror how lonely and insignificant he is, how he has wasted the great gift he was given, the angel Gelsomina.

  • Anthony Quinn is a Role for everything, Rota Music id FABULOUS !!!!!!!

  • I don't want to sound like the usual whinner that complains about the lack of art in the actual cinema industry. But after watching this video, you can only surrender to its beautiful sadness. The Music, and I cannot put it in any other way, is FUCKING GREAT!.

  • Nowadays people has no heart.

    When this masterwork of the cinema was made (1954) it was another world

  • This is a great ending.

  • XV International Street Theatre Festival "LA STRADA" - Kalisz - Poland - invited! 6-8 Juni 2008. Thanks!

  • I cried the whole movie

  • I just saw this movie, it' just so beautiful. Simple story, but very powerful, I love how it ends next to the immensity of sea. I can't help crying when I see this scene, it's just so beautiful

  • Saddest scene I've ever seen...

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