Movie
1949
Bitter Rice 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. The story follows a pair of fugitives, who hide among the rice fields of northern Italy. The Italian title of the film is based on a pun; since the Italian word riso can mean either "rice" or…
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One of the more underrated giants of 20th century cinema is Dino De Laurentiis, the producer credited for much of the post-WW2 boom of the Italian cinema industry. The film that brought him international renown and paved the way for many screen triumphs in the next four decades was *Bitter Rice*, the 1949 drama directed by Giuseppe De Santis, which is considered one of the grand classics of the Italian neorealist mo…More
