CrimeYear1950Duration1h 48mIMDb7.6

Bitter Rice

CrimeDrama

Two criminals on the run end up working in a rice field and decide to recruit other workers for their next robbery.

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Cast

Giuseppe De Santis

Director

Vittorio Gassman

Walter

Doris Dowling

Francesca

Silvana Mangano

Silvana

Raf Vallone

Marco

Checco Rissone

Aristide

NP

Nico Pepe

Beppe

AS

Adriana Sivieri

Celeste

LC

Lia Corelli

Amelia

MG

Maria Grazia Francia

Gabriella

DR

Dedi Ristori

Anna

AM

Anna Maestri

Irene

MB

Mariemma Bardi

Gianna

MC

Maria Capuzzo

Giulia

IM

Isabella Marincola

Rosa

Carlo Mazzarella

Gianetto

ER

Ermanno Randi

Paolo

AN

Antonio Nediani

Erminio

ME

Mariano Englen

Cesare

Giuseppe De Santis

Writer

Carlo Lizzani

Writer

GP

Gianni Puccini

Writer

CA

Corrado Alvaro

Writer

CM

Carlo Musso

Writer

IP

Ivo Perilli

Writer

FM

Franco Monicelli

Writer

Mario Monicelli

Writer

Comments

7 Comments

صــفــاء🦋🤍May 29, 2023

source: Bitter Rice

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Slavick YoussefNov 16, 2022

Riso amaro

✅🇲🇦الأناني🇲🇦✅Nov 16, 2022

Despite the fact that this film isn't available with English subtitles, (french is the closest!) it isn't so difficult to follow, and it is a satisfying experience. It comes across as a realistic portrayal of life in the rice fields of Italy, and is undoubtedly well-made with a haunting, natural quality about the whole production. Some of the scenes tend to be a bit overdrawn, and samey, but this doesn't detract from the overall intensity which is helped in no small part by the acting. It's quite clear that professional actors were used alongside non-actors, and this adds a certain poignant interest to the proceedings. The best performance is given by that seriously underrated actress from the USA - Doris Dowling, and it makes it all the more difficult to understand why she didn't have a far more high profile career in her own country. For fans of continental cinema in general, this is well worthy of interest.

GawananiNov 16, 2022

The beginning of the end of Italian neorealism was when managers began to inject sex and violence for a better box office. This film explores the exploitation in the Italian countryside of female rice pickers and ends in a black shootout. We have mud wrestling in between, stunning 18-year-old silvana mangano dancing and vittorio gassman as a gangster running from the police, but after 50 weird years, the movie holds up remarkably well. Suggested

lillyafeNov 16, 2022

First saw Bitter Rice in 1949 and it has haunted me for 51 years. Recently rented it (2000) and it's still compelling. The verrismo genre was new at the time; in 2000 it doesn't have the same impact that it did when Open City, Bicycle Thief, La Strada, et al were all showing at about the same time, and showing us that there was a true, artistic alternative to Hollywood pap. The then 18-year old Silvana Mangano's earthy performance will endure forever. My only memory from 1949 was of her working and chanting in the rice fields. And her doing a sensual Lindy with Vittorio Gassman. Those scenes were still compelling, half a century later.

MeNov 16, 2022

Although its mold of 1949 appears somewhat melodramatic today, the black and white 'Riso Amaro' (= Italian for 'Bitter Rice') surely ranks among the classics in film history. This very Italian product by Guiseppe de Santis shows a pretty ordinary crime story, excellently interwoven with an impressive decor of harsh season labor in the rice-fields of Northern Italy. The thousands of women, up to their ankles in the water, breaking their backs in the burning sun to earn a few bucks, make a truly great setting. 'Riso Amaro' has been labeled as 'neo-realism'. Another issue worth mentioning is its female lead Silvana Mangano, ex miss Rome. To the standards of 1949 miss Mangano's performance in this film was shocking. This earned 'Riso Amaro' a lot of publicity, in particular in strongly Roman Catholic Italy.

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