Synopsis
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. Luchino Visconti’s Le notti bianche, an exquisite adaptation of Dostoyevsky’s “White Nights,” translates this romantic, shattering tale of two restless souls into a ravishing black-and-white dream.
Cast
| Mario | Marcello Mastroianni |
| Natalia | Maria Schell |
| Lodger | Jean Marais |
| Prostitute | Clara Calamai |
Credits
| Director | Luchino Visconti |
| Producer | Franco Cristaldi |
| Screenplay | Suso Cecchi D’Amico |
| Cinematography | Luchino Visconti and Giuseppe Rotunno |
| From the story by | Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
| Editing | Mario Serandrei |
| Music | Nino Rota |
| Art direction | Mario Chiari |
| Set designer | Enzo Eusepi |
Disc Features
- New, restored high-definition digital transfer, supervised by cinematographer Giuseppe Rotunno
- A collection of interviews, from 2003, with screenwriter Suso Cecchi D’Amico, film critics Laura Delli Colli and Lino Miccichè, cinematographer Giuseppe Rotunno, and costume designer Piero Tosi
- New audio recording of Dostoyevsky’s “White Nights,” also downloadable as an MP3
- Rare screen-test footage of Mastroianni and Schell
- Original theatrical trailer
- New and improved English subtitle translation
- Plus: a new essay by film scholar Geoffrey Nowell-Smith
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Le notti bianche
by Jul 11, 2005Le notti bianche (White Nights) occupies a central position within Luchino Visconti’s body of work. In appearance at least, it consummates a break with the neorealism of the 1940s and early 1950s and looks forward to The Leopard (1963), in its rendering...
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