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Bitter Rice is a 1949 Italian neorealist crime drama film about two fugitives hiding among the rice workers in Piedmont. The film was nominated for the Palme d'Or and the Academy Award for Best Story, and is considered a classic of Italian cinema.
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.
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.
Francesca and Walter are two-bit criminals in Northern Italy, and, in an effort to avoid the police, Francesca joins a group of women rice workers. She meets the voluptuous peasant rice worker, Silvana, and the soon-to-be-discharged soldier, Marco.
13 Jan 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.
Watch Bitter Rice, a 1949 Italian film directed by Giuseppe De Santis and produced by Dino De Laurentiis. It follows a rice-field worker, a criminal and his girlfriend in a melodramatic heist story set in the Po Valley.
Francesca and Walter are two-bit criminals in Northern Italy, and, in an effort to avoid the police, Francesca joins a group of women rice workers. She meets the voluptuous peasant rice worker, Silvana, and the soon-to-be-discharged soldier, Marco.