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Bitter Rice: Directed by Giuseppe De Santis. With Vittorio Gassman, Doris Dowling, Silvana Mangano, Raf Vallone. 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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- Giuseppe De Santis
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- Crime, Drama
Bitter Rice (Italian: Riso amaro [ˈriːso aˈmaːro, ˈriːzo-]) 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 ...
- 7 September 1949
- Dino De Laurentiis
Dec 17, 1989 · Silvana Mangano, the Italian film actress who created a sensation as a passionately earthy peasant in ''Bitter Rice'' in 1948 and shaped increasingly compelling characterizations in later...
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.
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Following surgery on 4 December 1989 that left her in a coma, Mangano died of lung cancer in Madrid, Spain on 16 December 1989. Legacy. In 2000, the city of Rome named a street in the Vallerano district after Mangano. Filmography Mangano in Bitter Rice (1949) Mangano in This Angry Age (1957) Mangano in Conversation Piece (1974)
YearTitleRoleDirector1947L'elisir d'amoreAdina's Girlfriend1947Ballerina at Party1948Woman at Carmen'sMario Costa1949Bit partJan 13, 2016 · In Bitter Rice, Giuseppe De Santis focused his lens on the world of Italy’s female rice workers, for a story that’s part social commentary, part pulp melodrama—and introduced the world to a dazzling young actress named Silvana Mangano.
Starring Silvana Mangano, Vittorio Gassman, Doris Dowling. 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.
