DVD
Bitter rice = Riso amaro
Call Number
- DVD FOREIGN (CEN)
Edition
DVD special edition.
Languages
In Italian, with English subtitles.
Performers
Vittorio Gassman, Doris Dowling, Silvana Mangano.
Publication Information
[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2016]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (109 minutes) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet (color illustrations ; 17 cm)
Audience
Not rated.
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, this is neorealism with a heaping dose of pulp.
Notes
Title from container.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1949.
Special features: New high-definition digital restoration ; Giuseppe de Santas, a 2008 documentary by screenwriter Carlo Lizzani ; interview with Lizzani from 2002 ; trailer ; new English subtitle translation.