Cinema Lux

In Fellini’s “Nights of Cabiria,” Cabiria is a Roman prostitute with a penchant for bad luck. One night she enters this cinema-variety venue, is made to appear onstage by a hypnotist who has her pour out some of her most personal memories and feelings, to the derision and hoots of the loutish male audience. After the show she is approached by a seemingly kind man who, professing love, later exploits here for a large sum of money. The story of this film became the basis for the stage musical and movie “Sweet Charity.”