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Bitter Rice = Riso amaro
Uniform Title
Riso amaro (Motion picture)
Title
Bitter Rice = 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.
ISBN
1681430916
9781681430911
Edition
Blu-ray special edition.
Publication
[New York, New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2016]
Copyright Notice Date
©2016
Physical Description
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 fold-out-insert.
Medium
Blu-Ray 4 3/4 in.
Notes
Fullscreen (1.33:1) aspect ratio.
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.
Cinematography, Otello Martelli ; editor, Gabriele Varriale ; music, Goffredo Petrassi.
In Italian, with optional subtitles in English.
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.
Variant and related titles
Riso amaro
English title from container and disc label: Bitter rice
Format
Images / Video & Film
Language
Italian
Added to Catalog
February 13, 2019
Series
The Criterion collection ; 792
Credits
Cinematography, Otello Martelli ; editor, Gabriele Varriale ; music, Goffredo Petrassi.
Cast
Vittorio Gassman, Doris Dowling, Silvana Mangano, Raf Vallone.
System details note
Blu-ray, region A, fullscreen (1.33:1) presentation.
Audience
MPAA rating: Not rated.
Videorecording number
CC2566BD The Criterion Collection
Subjects
Genre/Form
Crime films.
Crime films.
Melodramas (Motion pictures)
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Drama.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Melodramas (Motion pictures)
Also listed under
Lux film (Firm), production company.
Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.
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