Le Notti di Cabiria (1957)

Maria 'Cabiria' Ceccarelli: [in Italian]
[to Alberto]
Maria 'Cabiria' Ceccarelli: There's another girl, my friend Wanda, she lives there too, but I don't bother with the others. The others all sleep under the arches in Caracalla. Mind you, I have my own house with water, electricity, bottled gas, I've got everything, even a thermometer. See this one here? She never ever slept under an arch. Well, maybe once... or twice. Of course, my house is nothing like this. But I like it.

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Maria 'Cabiria' Ceccarelli: [in Italian] I'm getting married! He asked me to marry him! We're buying a store in Grotta Ferrata. He's already signed the contract. Without me knowing he arranged it all: a store, a house! I'm selling everything... I'll sell the house... the house. We're getting married in two weeks. Wanda, I'm leaving!
Wanda: [in Italian] Does he know that you...
Maria 'Cabiria' Ceccarelli: [in Italian] Of course he knows! I've told him everything. I didn't hide anything from him. He's a saint, an angel! He didn't want to know anything. He didn't care. He loves me! He loves me! Wanda! He loves me! Wanda!

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Maria 'Cabiria' Ceccarelli: [in Italian] What do you want from me?
Oscar D'Onofrio: [in Italian] If you like, I'll marry you. I wanted to ask you before but I didn't have the courage. I've wanted to since the first time I saw you.
Maria 'Cabiria' Ceccarelli: [in Italian] What are you saying? Marry me? What are you saying? Marry someone you've seen ten times. That's not how it's done. Really! Thank God I'm an honest woman.That's not how it's done. Excuse-me!

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Federico Fellini cast film editor 'Leo Cattazo' as "The Man with the Sack" and wanted to keep that sequence in the release print over the objections of producer 'Dino De Laurentiis'. De Laurentiis, who thought the scene slowed the film down, finally had to resort to stealing the scene from the editing room. According to DeLaurentiis about five to seven years after its original release, Fellini called him up and begged him to give him back the sequence so he could restore it. As "Cabiria" had now achieved a classic status, the producer agreed.
According to Federico Fellini's assistant Dominique Delouche, actor 'Francois Perier' was hired so the film could get financing as a French co-production.
Italian censorship visa #23742 delivered on 13 March 1957.
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