THU FEB 19, 2026 7:30 PM

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$12.00 (member) ; $17.00 (general admission)

Ticket prices include a $2.00 online booking fee.

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  • RELEASED IN: 1949
  • 109 MINUTES
  • DIRECTED BY: Giuseppe De Santis

ABOUT THE FILM: 

In Italian with English subtitles.

During planting season in Northern Italy’s Po Valley, an earthy rice-field worker (Silvana Mangano) falls in with a small-time criminal (Vittorio Gassman) who is planning a daring heist of the crop, as well as his femme-fatale-ish girlfriend, played by the Hollywood star Doris Dowling. Both a socially conscious look at the hardships endured by underpaid field workers and a melodrama tinged with sex and violence, this early smash for producer extraordinaire Dino De Laurentiis and director Giuseppe De Santis is neorealism with a heaping dose of pulp

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

COUNTRY: Italy