Le notti bianche = White nights

Author

Luchino Visconti

Call Number

• DVD FOREIGN (CEN)

Languages

In Italian, with optional English subtitles.

Performers

Marcello Mastroianni, Maria Schell, Jean Marais, Clara Calamai.

Publication Information

[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2005]

Physical Description

1 videodisc (101 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet (ill. ; 18 cm.)

Audience

Not rated.

Summary

A lonely city transplant and a sheltered girl haunted by a lover's promise meet by chance on a canal bridge and begin a tentative romance that quickly entagles them in a web of longing and self-delusion.

Notes

Based on the story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1957.

Contents

• Special features: a collection of interviews, from 2003, with screenwriter Suso Cecchi D'Amico, film critics Laura Delli Colli and Lino Micciche, cinematographer Giuseppe Rotunno, and costume designer Piero Tosi ; audio recording of Dostoyevsky's "White nights," also downlodable as an MP3 ; rare screen test of Mastroianni and Schell ; original theatrical trailer.