Nights of Cabiria
(Le notti di Cabiria)

Screening on Film
Recently Restored

Directed by Federico Fellini.
With Giuletta Masina, François Périer, Amedeo Nazzari.
Italy, 1956, 35mm, black & white, 117 min.
Italian with English subtitles.

The second of Fellini’s films to win an Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, Nights of Cabiria is the poignant tale of a naïve prostitute who searches for love and fulfillment in the string of men she meets. Giulietta Masina’s perfomance as Cabiria—an impoverished prostitute living on the outskirts of Rome who is betrayed by her faith in human nature—is rightly considered one of the great performances on film. We present the recently restored full-length version, which greatly improves the murky quality of available American-release prints and includes a previously banned seven-minute sequence: the legendary “man with the sack” sequence, which Fellini was forced to cut, reportedly under
pressure from the Church.