Bitter Rice ( Riso amaro )

Bitter Rice (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Riso amaro
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Oscar Academy Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
Italian ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
Italian ( Mono )
Italian ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Italy ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
105 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Documentary
Interactive Menu
Photo Gallery
Scene Access
Storyboards
Trailer(s)
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1949 and produced in:
Italy ( Italy, Greece )

Directed By:
Giuseppe De Santis

Written By:
Giuseppe De Santis

Actors:
Vittorio Gassman ..... Walter
Doris Dowling ..... Francesca
Silvana Mangano ..... Silvana
Raf Vallone ..... Marco
Checco Rissone ..... Aristide
Nico Pepe ..... Beppe
Adriana Sivieri ..... Celeste
Lia Corelli ..... Amelia
Maria Grazia Francia ..... Gabriella
Dedi Ristori ..... Anna
Anna Maestri ..... Irene
Mariemma Bardi ..... Gianna
Maria Capuzzo ..... Giulia
Isabella Zennaro ..... Rosa
Carlo Mazzarella ..... Gianetto

Synopsis:

Originally released as Riso Amaro, Bitter Rice was one of the landmark films of the postwar Italian neorealist movement. Silvana Mangano portrays one of hundreds of women toiling slavishly in the Po Valley rice fields. She is courted by two men: respectable Raf Vallone and no-good fugitive from justice Vittorio Gassman. Mangano chooses Gassman, a decision which brings disaster not only to her but to her co-workers. The rice-field scenes are realistic enough to pass muster as documentary footage, though they tend to be undercut in the English-language version by the amateurish dubbing. Critics were unanimous in their praise for Bitter Rice; their words were, however, ignored by the male fans who came to see the film solely on the strength of the now-famous production still of the buxom Silvana Mangano standing in the rice field wearing tight shorts and torn black stockings.

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