TITLE...........: Bitter Rice (1949)
STARS...........: Vittorio Gassman, Doris Dowling, Silvana Man
DIRECTOR........: Giuseppe De Santis
WRITERS.........: Giuseppe De Santis, Carlo Lizzani, Gianni Puccini et al
GENRE...........: Drama, Crime
IMDB............: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040737
RUNTIME.........: 1h 49mn
SIZE............: 6.27 GB
VIDEO CODEC.....: HEVC (Main10@L4)
BITRATE.........: 8000 Kbps (2-pass)
RESOLUTION......: 1440x1080
ASPECT RATIO....: 1.33:1
FRAMERATE.......: 23.976 fps
AUDIO...........: Italian FLAC 1.0
SUBTITLES.......: ENG
SOURCE..........: Criterion Blu-ray
ENCODE DATE.....: 2023-05-22


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. Both a socially conscious look at the hardships endured by underpaid field workers and a melodrama tinged with sex and violence, this early smash for producer extraordinaire Dino De Laurentiis and director Giuseppe De Santis is neorealism with a heaping dose of pulp.


Extras

• Giuseppe De Santis, a 2008 documentary
• Interview with Carlo Lizzani from 2003
• Trailer