Bitter rice / produced by Dino de Laurentiis ; story by Giuseppe de Santis, Carlo Lizzani, Gianni Puccini ; screenplay by Corrado Alvaro, Giuseppe de Santis, Carlo Lizzani, Carlo Musso, Ivo Perilli, Gianni Puccini ; directed by Giuseppe De Santis.
Edition:
DVD special edition ; DVD edition ; full screen.
Publisher:
The Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
2016
Description:
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Title from container. Fullscreen (1.33:1) aspect ratio. DVD release of the 1949 motion picture. Special features: Giuseppe de Santas, a 2007 documentary by screenwriter Carlo Lizzani ; interview with Lizzani from 2003 ; trailer ; essay by critic Pasquale Iannone. Vittorio Gassman, Doris Dowling, Silvana Mangano, Raf Vallone.
Summary:
During planting season in Northern Italy's Po Valley, an earthy rice-field worker falls in with a small-time criminal who is planning a daring heist of the crop, as well as his femme-fatale-ish girlfriend. Both a socially conscious look at the hardships endured by underpaid field workers and a melodrama tinged with sex and violence.
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