Le notti bianche = White nights
(DVD)

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Visconti, Luchino, 1906-1976, director,
Rota, Nino, 1911-1979, composer,
Schell, Maria, 1926-2005, actor.
Mastroianni, Marcello, 1924-1996, actor.
Marais, Jean, 1913-1998, actor.
Published
[Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, [2005].
Format
DVD
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert (unpages : illustrations ; 18 cm).
Status
Southside - Media
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Published
[Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, [2005].
Language
ita
UPC
037429207826

Notes

General Note
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1957.
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Based on the short story: Belye nochi / by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
General Note
Special features: "Visconti's collaborators" (video interviews with screenwriter Suso Cecchi D'Amico, film critic Laura Delli Colli, film critic Lino Micciche, cinematographer Giuseppe Rotunno, & costume designer Piero Tosi about the production of the film ; in Italian with English subtitles, 2003, 17 min.); silent screen tests (Marcello Mastroianni, 2 min.; Maria Schell, 2 min.; Marcello Mastroianni & Maria Schell, 1 min.); recorded reading of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's "White nights" by T. Ryder Smith (playable on DVD players, or downloadable as MP3 files for computers with a DVD-ROM drive ; in English, 114 min.); original theatrical trailer.
General Note
Program notes on container insert include an essay by film scholar Geoffrey Nowell-Smith.
General Note
"Enhanced for 16:9 televisions"--Disc label.
Creation/Production Credits
Costumes, Piero Tosi ; editing, Mario Serandrei ; director of photography, Giuseppe Rotunno ; music by Nino Rota.
Participants/Performers
Maria Schell, Marcello Mastroianni, Jean Marais, Clara Calamai.
Description
A chance encounter on a canal bridge results in a series of twilight rendezvous between a lonely man and a sheltered woman haunted by a lover's promise.
System Details
DVD, region 1; Dolby digital mono.
Language
In Italian, with optional English subtitles.

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