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Bitter Rice (Italian: Riso amaro [ˈriːso aˈmaːro, ˈriːzo-]) is a 1949 Italian neorealist crime drama film directed and co-written by Giuseppe De Santis, produced by Dino De Laurentiis, and starring Vittorio Gassman, Doris Dowling, Silvana Mangano, and Raf Vallone. The story follows a pair of fugitives, who hide among the rice fields of ...
Bitter Rice: Directed by Giuseppe De Santis. With Vittorio Gassman, Doris Dowling, Silvana Mangano, Raf Vallone. Two criminals on the run end up working in a rice field and decide to recruit other workers for their next robbery.
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- Crime, Drama
- Giuseppe De Santis
- 1950-09-18
Mar 15, 2021 · BITTER RICERISO AMARODirected by Giuseppe de SantisItalyDrama105 minutes
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Set in the Po Valley, Italy, this 1949 film follows a rice-field worker who joins a gang of thieves to steal the crop. It features Silvana Mangano, Vittorio Gassman, and Doris Dowling in a story of love, betrayal, and violence.
- Walter Granata
Oct 5, 2022 · A video based on an essay by Brian Berry exploring the neorealist and noir genres of Bitter Rice (1949), a film by Italian director Giuseppe DeSantis. Create...
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- Jesselynn Amerling
Jan 13, 2016 · Learn how Giuseppe De Santis, a neorealist filmmaker, was inspired by the sight of female rice workers in Milan to make his masterpiece Bitter Rice (1949). Discover how he used genre elements, poetic realism, and stunning cinematography to depict the harsh and vibrant world of the rice fields.
Dec 2, 2022 · The early-generation genre mashup “Bitter Rice,” from 1949, fuses the class-based politics—and the on-location authenticity—of neorealism with a smoldering romantic melodrama. It’s ...
