Le notti bianche

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Awards

Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists Awards 1958 - Won - Best Actor

Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists Awards 1958 - Won - Best Production Design

Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists Awards 1958 - Won - Best Score

Venice Film Festival 1957 - Nominated - Golden Lion

Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists Awards 1958 - Won - Best Actor

Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists Awards 1958 - Won - Best Production Design

Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists Awards 1958 - Won - Best Score

Venice Film Festival 1957 - Nominated - Golden Lion

Venice Film Festival 1957 - Won - Silver Lion

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Le notti bianche

Director:
Luchino Visconti
101 Minutes
 

At A Glance

Film 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.

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Details

Runtime:
101 min.

Country:
ITALY

Language:
Italian

Color:
Color

Plot Summary

SPECIAL 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

 

 

 

Cast & Crew

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Directed by
Luchino Visconti

Produced by
Franco Cristaldi

Writing credits
Luchino Visconti
Suso Cecchi D'Amico

Cast

Maria Schell
Marcello Mastroianni
Jean Marais
Clara Calamai

 

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