La risaia

La risaia (1956)

The 19-year-old Elena, who is as pretty as she is bright, works as a rice girl for the landlord Guerrini. Having become aware of her name, he finds out that she is his illegitimate daughter of whom he knew nothing. He tries to secretly help Elena, who has fallen in love with the car mechanic Gianni. But that only creates mistrust. When Guerrini's worthless nephew harasses the girl, the situation is dramatically worse.

Data de estreia
1956-01-27
TMDB
5.7 / 10 (13)
Duração
1 h 32 min
Géneros
Drama
Realizador
Raffaello Matarazzo

Elenco

Curiosidades

Rice Girl is a 1956 Italian melodrama film directed by Raffaello Matarazzo.

Production

The film is part of the sentimental melodramas, commonly called tearjerking (of which Matarazzo was the greatest exponent), then in vogue among the Italian public, then renamed by critics with the term neorealism of appendix

It was the first film in Cinemascope and in color made by Matarazzo, it was at the time presented as a popular remake of the neorealist masterpiece Riso amaro by Giuseppe De Santis of 1949.

It was shot for exteriors in the Casalino countryside, in the province of Novara.

It is the first film shot in Italy by Elsa Martinelli on her return from Hollywood where she made her debut alongside Kirk Douglas in the western film The Indian Hunter by André De Toth.

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