About this title: Luchino Visconti's pseudo-documentary look at the exploitation of Sicilian fishermen was based on Giovanni Verga's 1881 novel I Malavoglia. The townspeople of Aci Trezza, Sicily, portrayed themselves, speaking in their native dialects and fretting about economic hardship for over 160 minutes of screen time. As nobly neorealist as such an endeavor must have seemed, it died at the box office upon initial release, leading Visconti to add narration in standard Italian. The truth is that the film wasn't all that realistic to begin with, as Visconti's unshakable attachment to cinematic artifice led ...
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Format: DVD
Screen format: Full Screen
Studio: Image Entertainment
Date: 2002
UPC:014381073829
Description: Real life Sicilian residents portray their lives. New in new packaging. Language: Italian. Run time: 161 mins. Aspect ratio: 4: 3. Originally released: 1948. New, Mint Sealed. Wrenching study of a family struggling to overcome poverty & find happiness against background of Sicily's fish commmunity whose residents overthrow tyranny of wholesalers to trhive. Life goes on all around them. Superb. read more
Format: DVD
Studio: Image Entertainment
Date: 2002-08-20
UPC:014381073829
Description: Good. DVD in Excellent Condition. Previous Rental. First Class Shipping! ! ! Orders Tracked On Items Over $10.00, where available. read more
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