Directed by:
Giuseppe De SantisCinematography:
Otello MartelliCast:
Vittorio Gassman, Doris Dowling, Silvana Mangano, Maria Capuzzo, Raf Vallone, Attilio Dottesio, Ermanno Randi, Anna Maestri, Nico Pepe, Maria Grazia FranciaVOD (2)
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Riso Amaro was one of the landmark films of the postwar Italian neorealist movement. Silvana Mangano portrays one of hundreds of women toiling slavishly in the Po Valley rice fields. She is courted by two men: respectable Raf Vallone and no-good fugitive from justice Vittorio Gassman. Mangano chooses Gassman, a decision which brings disaster not only to her but to her co-workers. The rice-field scenes are realistic enough to pass muster as documentary footage. Critics were unanimous in their praise for Bitter Rice; their words were, however, ignored by the male fans who came to see the film solely on the strength of the now-famous production still of the buxom Silvana Mangano standing in the rice field wearing tight shorts and torn black stockings. (official distributor synopsis)
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Vittorio Gassman
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Doris Dowling
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Anna Maestri
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