Nights Of Cabiria (Criterion) DVD

• Uncut, restored theatrical re-release version features the never-before-seen seven-minute "man with a sack" sequence
• Exclusive video interview with former Fellini assistant Dominique Delouche
• Audio interview with producer Dino De Laurentiis
• The orginal and re-release theatrical trailers
• Excerpt from Fellini's The White Sheik, in which Masina makes her first appearance as Cabiria
• Restoration demonstration
• New and improved English subtitle translation
• Italian and optional English-dubbed tracks

Director: Federico Fellini
Giulietta Masina, François Périer, Amedeo Nazzari, Aldo Silvani, Franca Marzi, Dorian Gray, Mario Passante, Pina Gualandri

Giulietta Masina won Best Actress at Cannes as the title character of one of Fellini's most haunting films. Oscar winner for Best Foreign Language Film, NIGHTS OF CABIRIA (Le Notti di Cabiria) is the tragic story of a naive prostitute searching for true love in the seediest sections of Rome. The film is also about loneliness and the observation of the isolated person, those who don't fit in for one reason or another.

The director, Federico Fellini, has said that: "The positive nature of Cabiria is so noble and wonderful. Cabiria offers herself to the lowest bidder and hears truth in lies. Though she is a prostitute, her basic instinct is to search for happiness as best she can, as one who has not been dealt a good hand. She wants to change, but she has been typecast in life as a loser. Yet she is a loser who always goes on to look again for some happiness.

Cabiria is a victim, and any of us can be a victim at one time or another. Cabiria is, however, more of a victim personality than most. Yet even so, there is also the survivor in her. This film doesn't have a resolution in the sense that there is a final scene in which the story reaches a conclusion so definitive that you no longer have to worry about Cabiria. I myself have worried about her fate ever since."