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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.
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.
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.
Jan 16, 2016 · Bitter Rice is a story about crime, class conflict, and backbreaking labor. But it’s also about the wonder that is Mangano, as her Silvana chews gum, breathes heavy, and teases...
Jan 13, 2016 · In Bitter Rice, Giuseppe De Santis focused his lens on the world of Italy’s female rice workers, for a story that’s part social commentary, part pulp melodrama—and introduced the world to a dazzling young actress named Silvana Mangano.
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.
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.
