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Title:

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.

Subject:

Criminals--Drama.
Rice farming--Drama.
Agricultural laborers--Drama.
Feature films.
Feature films--Italy.
Motion pictures, Italian.
Feature films.
Melodramas (Motion pictures)
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Authors:

De Santis, Giuseppe, 1917-1997.
Alvaro, Corrado, 1895-1956, screenwriter.
Lizzani, Carlo, screenwriter.
Musso, Carlo, screenwriter.
Perilli, Ivo, 1902-1994, screenwriter.
Puccini, Gianni, 1914-1968, screenwriter.
Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.

Notes:

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.

Series:

Criterion collection ; 792.

ISBN:

9781551430928
1551430924

UPC:

715515165211

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

S1PD771 -- Johnston Public Library (Johnston)