Bitter rice / screenplay by Corrado Alvaro, Giuseppe De Santis, Carlo Lizzani, Carlo Musso, Ivo Perilli, Gianni Puccini ; directed by Giuseppe De Santis.
Material type: FilmPublisher number: CC2567DDVD | The Criterion CollectionLanguage: Italian Original language: Italian Series: Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 792.Publisher: [New York, New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2016]Edition: Special editionDescription: 1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 inContent type:- two-dimensional moving image
- video
- videodisc
- Original title: Riso amaro
- Cinematography, Otello Martelli ; editor, Gabriele Varriale ; music, Goffredo Petrassi.
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult DVD | Main Library | DVD | WORLD Bitter r | Available | 33111008640217 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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.
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.
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.