Bitter Rice

Year: 1949

Runtime: 109 mins

Language: Italian

Director: Giuseppe De Santis

CrimeDrama

Set in the Po Valley, in a lush valley, this earthy drama follows Francesca and Walter, petty criminals on the run. To evade police, Francesca hides among women rice workers, meeting the voluptuous Silvana and discharged soldier Marco. Walter tracks her to the fields, and the quartet becomes entangled in a tangled web of robbery, love and murder.

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