Bitter Rice
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Call Number: DVD FLC-ITA Bitter
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Westgate Branch
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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.
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.
DVD ; fullscreen (1.33:1) presentation ; Dolby digital mono.
REVIEWS & SUMMARIES
School Library Journal ReviewSummary / Annotation
COMMUNITY REVIEWS
Bitter submitted by smr on July 5, 2020, 8:56am Bitter rice
SERIES
Criterion collection
792.
LANGUAGE OPTIONS
In Italian, with optional subtitles in English.
PUBLISHED
New York : The Criterion Collection, [2016]
Year Published: 2016
Description: 1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Format: DVD
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
1551430924
9781551430928
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
De Santis, Giuseppe,
Alvaro, Corrado, 1895-1956,
Lizzani, Carlo,
Musso, Carlo,
Perilli, Ivo, 1902-1994,
Puccini, Gianni, 1914-1968,
Gassman, Vittorio,
Dowling, Doris, 1921-2004,
Mangano, Silvana, 1930-1989,
Criterion Collection (Firm),
SUBJECTS
Criminals -- Drama.
Rice farming -- Drama.
Agricultural laborers -- Drama.
Foreign films -- Italy.
Motion pictures, Italian.
Feature films.
Melodramas (Motion pictures)
Fiction films.