Later remade in hollywood as sweet charity, fellini's nights of cabiria is an often humorous, poignant, unflinching and vivid portrait of one woman's picaresque existence and her perseverance through adversity.starring fellini's wife, giulietta masina, as the irrepressible protagonist who previously appeared in a brief scene in the white sheik, nights of cabiria marked fellini's last foray into gritty neo realism before venturing into the surreal satire and dream logic of la dolce vita and eight and a half.