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Bitter rice

Bitter rice

DVD 2016

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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ISBN:
1681430924
Edition:
Special DVD edition; Widescreen [edition]
Description:
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in
digital optical monaural
video file DVD video
monochrome
Target Audience Note:
CHVR: Not rated
Other Title:
Riso Amaro
Notes:
Title from sell sheet
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1949
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
DVD
Italian dialogue; English subtitles
Control Number:
1516444
UPC:
715515165211
Other Authors:
De Santis, Giuseppe, 1917-1997
Dowling, Doris, 1921-2004
Gassman, Vittorio
Mangano, Silvana, 1930-1989
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