Riso amaro / un film Lux prodotto da Dino De Laurentiis ; diretto da Giuseppe De Santis ; soggetto di Giuseppe De Santis, Carlo Lizzani, Gianni Puccini ; sceneggiatura di Corrado Alvaro, Giuseppe De Santis, Carlo Lizzani, Carlo Musso, Ivo Perilli, Gianni Puccini.
Edition:
Blu-ray special edition.
Publisher:
The Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
2016
Description:
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 fold-out-insert.
Vittorio Gassman, Doris Dowling, Silvana Mangano, Raf Vallone. Blu-Ray release of the 1949 motion picture. Blu-Ray special edition features: Giuseppe de Santas, a 2008 documentary by screenwriter Carlo Lizzani ; interview with Lizzani from 2002 ; trailer ; essay by critic Pasquale Iannone.
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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