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Le notti bianche = White nights /

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: NOT020 | Criterion CollectionLanguage: Italian Original language: Italian Subtitle language: English Series: Criterion collection ; 296.Publisher: [Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, [2005]Description: 1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert (unpaged : illustrations ; 18 cm)Content type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
ISBN:
  • 0780030117
  • 9780780030114
Other title:
  • White nights
  • Title on container: Luchino Visconti's Le notti bianche
Related works:
  • Motion picture adapation of (work): Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881. Belye nochi
  • Container of (expression): Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881. Belye nochi. English
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 791.43/72 22
LOC classification:
  • PN1997 .N6774 2005
Other classification:
  • IV 50200
Online resources:
Contents:
Special Features: A collection of interviews ; new audio recording of Dostoyevsky's "White nights" also downloadable as an MP3 file ; rare screen test of Mastroianni and Schell ; original theatrical trailer ; an essay by film scholar Geoffrey Nowell-Smith.
Production credits:
  • Costumes, Piero Tosi ; editing, Mario Serandrei ; director of photography, Giuseppe Rotunno ; music, Nino Rota.
Awards:
  • Silver Lion, 1957 Venice Film Festival.
Cast: Maria Schell, Marcello Mastroianni, Jean Marais, Marcella Rovena, Maria Zanolli, Elena Fancera, Lanfranco Ceccarelli, Angelo Galassi, Renato Terra, Corrado Pani, Dick [that is, Dirk] Sanders, Clara Calamai.Summary: 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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Status Date due Barcode
Video Recording Carleton University, AVRC SP456 - Collections Room DVD-03407 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 16050309272

Based on the short story: Belye nochi / by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1957.

Wide screen (1.66:1).

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 an MP3 file for computers with a DVD-ROM drive ; in English, 114 min.); original theatrical trailer.

Program notes on container insert include an essay by film scholar Geoffrey Nowell-Smith.

"Enhanced for 16:9 televisions"--Disc label.

Special Features: A collection of interviews ; new audio recording of Dostoyevsky's "White nights" also downloadable as an MP3 file ; rare screen test of Mastroianni and Schell ; original theatrical trailer ; an essay by film scholar Geoffrey Nowell-Smith.

DVD, region 1; Dolby digital mono.

In Italian, with optional English subtitles.

Silver Lion, 1957 Venice Film Festival.

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