Nights of Cabiria

Nights of Cabiria
Theatrical release poster
Italian	Le notti di Cabiria
Directed by	Federico Fellini
Screenplay by	Federico Fellini Ennio Flaiano Tullio Pinelli Pier Paolo Pasolini
Story by	Federico Fellini
Produced by	Dino De Laurentiis
Starring	Giulietta Masina François Périer Franca Marzi Dorian Gray Amedeo Nazzari
Cinematography	Aldo Tonti Otello Martelli
Edited by	Leo Catozzo
Music by	Nino Rota
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures (Italy) Les Films Marceau (France)
Release dates	10 May 1957 (1957-05-10) (Cannes) 27 May 1957 (1957-05-27) (Italy) 16 October 1957 (1957-10-16) (France)
Running time	118 minutes[1]
Countries	Italy France
Language	Italian
Box office	$770,278[2][3]

Nights of Cabiria (Italian: Le notti di Cabiria) is a 1957 drama film co-written and directed by Federico Fellini. It stars Giulietta Masina as Cabiria, a prostitute living in Rome. The cast also features François Périer and Amedeo Nazzari. The film is based on a story by Fellini, who expanded it into a screenplay along with his co-writers Ennio Flaiano, Tullio Pinelli and Pier Paolo Pasolini.

In addition to the best actress award at the Cannes Film Festival for Giulietta Masina, Nights of Cabiria won the 1957 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. This was the second straight year Italy and Fellini won this Academy Award, having previously won for La Strada, which also starred Masina.

In 2008, the film was included on the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage’s 100 Italian films to be saved, a list of 100 films that "have changed the collective memory of the country between 1942 and 1978."^[4]