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Bitter rice / screenplay by Corrado Alvaro, Giuseppe De Santis, Carlo Lizzani, Carlo Musso, Ivo Perilli, Gianni Puccini ; directed by Giuseppe De Santis.

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher 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
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
Other title:
  • Original title: Riso amaro
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Production credits:
  • Cinematography, Otello Martelli ; editor, Gabriele Varriale ; music, Goffredo Petrassi.
Cast: Vittorio Gassman, Doris Dowling, Silvana Mangano.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.
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Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult DVD Adult DVD Main Library DVD WORLD Bitter r Available 33111008640217
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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.

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