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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.
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.
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.
In a more spectacular display of cinema craft, Bitter Rice features a mannered and intensely dramatic montage depicting a giant brawl in the mud. The women are goaded into two opposing factions and explode into violence.
Bitter Rice (Riso amaro) is a 1949 film from Italy directed by Giuseppe De Santis. The setting is northern Italy during rice-planting season. Seasonal workers, all women, head north to the rice fields for planting and harvesting.
During planting season in Northern Italy’s Po Valley, an earthy rice-field worker (Silvana Mangano) falls in with a small-time criminal (Vittorio Gassman) who is planning a daring heist of the crop, as well as his femme-fatale-ish girlfriend, played by the Hollywood star Doris Dowling.
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.
