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1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in
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During planting season in Northern Italy's Po Valley, an earthy rice-field worker falls in with a small-time criminal who is planning a daring heist of the crop, as well as his femme-fatale-ish girlfriend. Both a socially conscious look at the hardships endured by underpaid field workers and a melodrama tinged with sex and violence
Fullscreen (1.33:1) aspect ratio
DVD release of the 1949 motion picture
Special features: Giuseppe de Santas, a 2007 documentary by screenwriter Carlo Lizzani ; interview with Lizzani from 2003 ; trailer ; essay by critic Pasquale Iannone
Cinematography, Otello Martelli ; editor, Gabriele Varriale ; music, Goffredo Petrassi
Vittorio Gassman, Doris Dowling, Silvana Mangano
MPAA rating: Not rated
DVD ; fullscreen (1.33:1) presentation ; Dolby digital mono
In Italian, with optional subtitles in English