On Thursday, May 5 is the time of the film directed by Giuseppe De Santis
“Bitter Rice” is that the film will be screened Thursday, May 5 at 9pm at the cinema Palladino of San Giovanni Rotondo (free entrance to the hall 2). The review “Neorealismo e dintorni” every Thursday proposed as many of the most interesting films of Italian neorealism. Bitter Rice is a 1949 film directed by Giuseppe De Santis and produced by Dino De Laurentiis. Defined the neo-realist masterpiece De Santis, was shot in the countryside Vercelli, more precisely in Cascina Venera (common lignans) and the estate Selve (Salasco). It was presented at the 3rd Festival of Cannes. There is a version of the film dubbed in English where the voice of the protagonist is Bettina Dickson. Even in the Italian version Silvana Mangano does not act with her voice, but with that of the great Lydia Simoneschi will continue to double also in several subsequent films.
