Riso amaro
Subtitle: Bitter rice
By: producer, Dino De Laurentiis ; screenplay, Giuseppe De Santis, Carlo Lizzani, Gianni Puccini ; directed by Giuseppe De Santis
Contributors: Gassman, Vittorio, actor; Dowling, Doris, 1921-2004, actor; Mangano, Silvana, 1930-1989, actor
Edition: Blu-ray special edition.
Series: The Criterion collection -- 792; Criterion collection -- 792.
Published: 2016
Language: ita
Format: [videorecording] =
Number of pages: 109
Subjects: Drama; Rice workers; Criminals; Rice
Other titles: Bitter rice
Description: A small-time criminal plans to steal the rice crop from Northern Italy's Po Valley.
Notes: Originally released as a motion picture in 1949.

Uncompressed mono, full screen 1.33:1.

Essay by critic Pasquale Iannone in container.

Features: Giuseppe De Santis (2008) documentary by screenwriter Carlo Lizzani; interview with Lizzani from 2003; trailer; new English subtitle translation.

Vittorio Gassmann, Doris Dowling, Silvana Mangano, Raf Vallone, Checco Rissone.

MPAA rating: Not rated.

This is a Blu-ray disc made for Blu-ray disc players and will not play in standard DVD players.

For private home use only.

In Italian with optional English subtitles.