1957 Federico Fellini's Haunting Drama of a Prostitute

Cabiria (Giulietta Masina) lives in a poor sector of Rome, Italy, where she's a prostitute whose dreams of a better life are confounded by evil doing men. This is Federico Fellini's (1957) classic haunting drama about the a child-like street-walker who somehow manages to retain her senses of curiosity, hope for becoming respectable & remains unhardened by the harshness of the city where she lives. Cabiria owns a small house & bank account. The men in her life mercilessly use & abuse her. For example, one of her boyfriends helps himself to 40,000 lire from Cabiria's purse, then throws her into the river, left to nearly drown. While Cabiria's street-walking, a film star on the Via Veneto takes her to his home for his own pleasure. Still faithful, Cabiria seeks out the Madonna's help to realize her dreams. Acting out heart-felt desires while hypnotized on a vaudeville stage, an accountant watches. Believing that he may be her way out of the slums, Cabiria goes along with his courting. Has the Madonna answered her prayer? Or is theirs another ill-fated relation. Could this businessman appreciate Cabiria as she is? Has she fallen in love or for another cheap trick? Answers to such questions are considered by Fellini's depth of perception of human frailty. This film's charm is it's element of comedy interwoven with the drama by Fellini. DVD Features include: Featurettes that have never been seen before: The "Man with a Sack" Sequence; A rare video interview with a former assistant of Fellini: Dominique Delouche; An audio interview with producer Dino ee Laurentis; The original and re-release theatrical trailers; An excerpt from "The White Sheik"; The restoration demonstration. "The Nights of Cabiria" is among one of the top 250 all time greatest films ever made. It's likely to be considered among Fellini's finest for generations~Read full review