TY  - ADVS
AU  - De Santis,Giuseppe
AU  - Alvaro,Corrado
AU  - Lizzani,Carlo
AU  - Musso,Carlo
AU  - Perilli,Ivo
AU  - Puccini,Gianni
AU  - Gassman,Vittorio
AU  - Dowling,Doris
AU  - Mangano,Silvana
ED  - Criterion Collection (Firm),
TI  - Bitter rice
T2  - Criterion collection
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - [New York, New York]
PB  - The Criterion Collection
KW  - Criminals
KW  - Drama
KW  - Rice farming
KW  - Agricultural laborers
KW  - Foreign films
KW  - Italy
KW  - Motion pictures, Italian
KW  - Feature films
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Melodramas (Motion pictures)
KW  - Fiction films
N1  - 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; Vittorio Gassman, Doris Dowling, Silvana Mangano; MPAA rating: Not rated
N2  - 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
ER  -