A particularity of the movie is that it's based on a story penned in the 1940s by a young Federico Fellini, who was not yet a filmmaker, and his longtime friend and collaborator Tullio Pinelli.
Interestingly, Federico Fellini co-wrote this tale of two Neapolitan kids who embark on a ship to New York to escape Italy's early postwar poverty with his frequent collaborator Tullio Pinelli ...
La Strada Story by Federico Fellini, who also directed this picture, and Tullio Pinelli tells of a blunt, brutal wandering carnie performer (Anthony Quinn) who 'buys' a girl (Giulietta Masina) to ...