Le notti bianche [videorecording] = White nights / sogetto e sceneggiatura, Suso Cecchi D'Amico, Luchino Visconti ; un film CI. AS. s.r.l. ; prodotto da Franco Cristaldi, per la Vides ; regia di Luchino Visconti.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1957. Maria Schell, Marcello Mastroianni, Jean Marais, Clara Calamari. Based on the short story: Belye nochi / by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Special features: "Visconti's collaborators" (video interviews with screenwriter Suso Cecchi D'Amico, film critic Laura Delli Colli, film critic Lino Micciche, cinematographer Giuseppe Rotunno, & costume designer Piero Tosi about the production of the film ; in Italian with English subtitles, 2003, 17 min.); silent screen tests (Marcello Mastroianni, 2 min.; Maria Schell, 2 min.; Marcello Mastroianni & Maria Schell, 1 min.); recorded reading of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's "White nights" by T. Ryder Smith (playable on DVD players, or downloadable as MP3 files for computers with a DVD-ROM drive ; in English, 114 min.); original theatrical trailer. Program notes on container insert include an essay by film scholar Geoffrey Nowell-Smith. "Enhanced for 16:9 televisions" -- Disc label.
Summary:
A chance encounter on a canal bridge results in a series of twilight rendezvous between a lonely man and a sheltered woman haunted by a lover's promise.
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