Bitter Rice Movie Review 1949

Mangano became a star with her sultry performance about survival in postwar Italy. She scrapes by, working in the rice fields of the Po Valley, loved by the down-to-earth Vallone, who provides her with little excitement. Gassman is the rotten-to-the-core thief who meets up with Mangano while he's running from the police. He mistreats her, she steals his money and betrays her friends, and both destroy each other. In Italian with English subtitles.

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Available on VHS
Running time 96 minutes.
Originally from Italian.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Sex & Sexuality, Postwar

Screenplay

Guiseppe de Santis, Carlo Lizzani, Gianni Puccini

Cast

Silvana Mangano, Vittorio Gassman, Raf Vallone, Doris Dowling

Cinematography

Otello Martelli

Director

Guiseppe de Santis

Music

Goffredo Petrassi

Producer

Dino De Laurentiis