Bitter rice
2016
Blu-ray
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.
Item Details
ISBN: 9781681430911
Edition: Blu-ray special edition.
Description:
- 1 videodisc (109 minutes) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 inches.
- polychrome
- digital
- optical
- full screen
- HDTV
- video file
- Blu-ray video
- region A
Target Audience Note: Canadian Home Video Rating: Not rated.
Other Title: Original title: Riso amaro
Notes:
- Title from container.
- 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.
- Cinematography, Otello Martelli ; editor, Gabriele Varriale ; music, Goffredo Petrassi.
- Vittorio Gassman, Doris Dowling, Silvana Mangano.
- Blu-ray disc (requires Blu-ray player for playback) ; full screen format (1.33:1 aspect ratio) ; monaural.
- For private home use only.
- Audio track in Italian, with optional subtitles in English.
Publisher or Distributor Number: CC2566BD
Control Number: 3340539
UPC:
- 715515165112
- 715515165112
Series:
Subjects:
- Agricultural laborers -- Fiction.
- Criminals -- Fiction.
- Man-woman relationships -- Fiction.
- Rice farming -- Fiction.
Genre:
- Feature films.
- Fiction films.
- Foreign films.
- Motion pictures, Italian.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Other Authors:
- Alvaro, Corrado, 1895-1956, screenwriter.
- Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.
- De Santis, Giuseppe, 1917-1997, film director, screenwriter.
- Dowling, Doris, 1921-2004, actor.
- Gassman, Vittorio, actor.
- Lizzani, Carlo, screenwriter.
- Mangano, Silvana, 1930-1989, actor.
- Musso, Carlo, screenwriter.
- Perilli, Ivo, 1902-1994, screenwriter.
- Puccini, Gianni, 1914-1968, screenwriter.