Bitter rice /
Bitter rice /
Original title: Riso amaro
screenplay by Corrado Alvaro, Giuseppe De Santis, Carlo Lizzani, Carlo Musso, Ivo Perilli, Gianni Puccini ; directed by Giuseppe De Santis.
- Special edition.
- 1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
- DVD video 4 3/4 in.
- Criterion collection ; 792 .
- Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 792. .
Title from container. Fullscreen (1.33:1) aspect ratio. DVD release of the 1949 motion picture. Special features: Giuseppe de Santas, a 2007 documentary by screenwriter Carlo Lizzani ; interview with Lizzani from 2003 ; trailer ; essay by critic Pasquale Iannone.
Cinematography, Otello Martelli ; editor, Gabriele Varriale ; music, Goffredo Petrassi. Cinematography, Otello Martelli ; editor, Gabriele Varriale ; music, Goffredo Petrassi.
Vittorio Gassman, Doris Dowling, Silvana Mangano.
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.
MPAA rating: Not rated.
DVD ; fullscreen (1.33:1) presentation ; Dolby digital mono.
In Italian, with optional subtitles in English.
715515165211
CC2567DDVD The Criterion Collection
Criminals--Drama.
Rice farming--Drama.
Agricultural laborers--Drama.
Foreign films--Italy.
Motion pictures, Italian.
Feature films.
Melodramas (Motion pictures)
Fiction films.
Title from container. Fullscreen (1.33:1) aspect ratio. DVD release of the 1949 motion picture. Special features: Giuseppe de Santas, a 2007 documentary by screenwriter Carlo Lizzani ; interview with Lizzani from 2003 ; trailer ; essay by critic Pasquale Iannone.
Cinematography, Otello Martelli ; editor, Gabriele Varriale ; music, Goffredo Petrassi. Cinematography, Otello Martelli ; editor, Gabriele Varriale ; music, Goffredo Petrassi.
Vittorio Gassman, Doris Dowling, Silvana Mangano.
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.
MPAA rating: Not rated.
DVD ; fullscreen (1.33:1) presentation ; Dolby digital mono.
In Italian, with optional subtitles in English.
715515165211
CC2567DDVD The Criterion Collection
Criminals--Drama.
Rice farming--Drama.
Agricultural laborers--Drama.
Foreign films--Italy.
Motion pictures, Italian.
Feature films.
Melodramas (Motion pictures)
Fiction films.