Cover image for Bitter rice
Title:
Bitter rice
Alternate title:
Riso amaro
Summary:
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.
Audience:
MPAA rating: Not rated.
General Note:
Fullscreen (1.33:1) aspect ratio.

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1949.

Special features: Giuseppe de Santis, a 2008 documentary by screenwriter Carlo Lizzani ; interview with Lizzani from 2003 ; trailer ; essay by critic Pasquale Iannone.
Edition:
DVD special edition.
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 sheet (4 unnumbered pages : color illustration ; 37 x 47 cm folded to 19 x 12 cm)
Publisher:
The Criterion Collection,
Electronic Access:
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Publication Date:
2016

1949
ISBN:
9781551430928
Publication Information:
[New York, New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2016]
Call Number:
DVD BITTERI
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