| Description: | Marcello Mastroianni, as a lonely city transplant, and Maria Schell, as a sheltered girl haunted by a lover’s promise, meet by chance on a canal bridge and begin a tentative romance that quickly entangles them in a web of longing and self-delusion. Based on the novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Screenplay by Suso Cecchi D'Amico; directed by Luchino Visconti; music by Nino Rota. Widescreen. In Italian with optional English subtitles. (B&W). Special Features: collection of interviews with screenwriter Suso Cechi D'Amico, film critics Delli Colli and Lino Micciche, cinematographer Rutunno and costume designer Piero Tosi; recording of Dostoyevsky's "White Nights" (1:54:17 min.), downloadable as an MP3; screen test footage; essay by film scholar Geoffrey Nowell-Smith; original theatrical trailers. |
