Bitter rice
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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| Victoria | Available |
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- ISBN: 9781681430928
- Physical Description 1 videodisc (109 minutes) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 inches.
- Edition Special edition.
- Publisher [New York, New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2016]
- Copyright ©1949
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Title from container. DVD release of the 1949 motion picture. Special features: Giuseppe de Santas, a 2008 documentary by screenwriter Carlo Lizzani ; interview with Lizzani from 2002 ; trailer ; plus: an essay by critic Pasquale Iannone. GMD: videodisc. |
| Creation/Production Credits Note: | Cinematography, Otello Martelli ; editor, Gabriele Varriale ; music, Goffredo Petrassi. |
| Participant or Performer Note: | Vittorio Gassman, Doris Dowling, Silvana Mangano. |
| Target Audience Note: | 14A. |
| System Details Note: | DVD ; fullscreen (1.33:1) presentation ; Dolby Digital monophonic. |
| Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note: | For private home use only. |
| Language Note: | In Italian, with optional subtitles in English. |