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Bitterer Reis
Melodrama from the milieu of female farm workers in the rice fields of Piedmont shortly after the Second World War. One of the seasonal workers falls in love with a crook who turns up one day to rob the women of their wages. Only after a bitter struggle does the woman, blinded by love, see through the game...
Italy, in the late 1940s: Large numbers of “mondine” flood the Po Valley in May. The seasonal workers come to harvest the rice. Among them is Francesca, the mistress of gangster Walter (Vittorio Gassman). When he turns up at the camp, there is a fight. Angered, the handsome crook makes a pass at attractive Silvana (Silvana Mangano). With her help, he wants to rob the workers of their wages ... Well-known work of Italian neorealism as an example of the class struggle in a society characterized by poverty, with exemplary, beautiful visual design. Oscar nomination in 1951 (Best Screenplay).