Search - Le Notti Bianche [Criterion Collection] on DVD

Content Advisory: Questionable for Children Movie Release: 1957 DVD Release: 07/12/2005 Format: DVD - Black and White,Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV Edition: Restored/Remastered,Special Collection Audio Tracks: Italian Subtitles: English SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 41 mins Studio: Criterion Members Wishing: 13 Genres: Drama, Romance, Romantic Drama, Melodrama

Shy young Marcelo Mastroianni ambles across a bridge one evening, where he meets a strange but alluring girl (Maria Schell) who is awaiting her lover. This chance acquaintance is the first strand in a complex web entrapping Mastroianni in a dreamlike world of flashbacks, flashforwards and false visions. The girl, suspecting that her lover is staying at a nearby hotel, asks Mastroianni to deliver a note to the errant swain. He agrees--then destroys the note, setting the plot in motion. Updated from a 19th century story by Dostoyevsky, White Nights (Le Notti Bianche) was later refilmed by Robert Bresson as Four Nights of a Dreamer. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Marcello Mastroianni - Mario
Maria Schell - Natalia
Jean Marais - Lodger
Clara Calamai - Prostitute
Ferdinando Gera - Father
Renato Terra
Alberto Carloni - Bar Proprietor
Dick Sanders - Dancer
Marcella Rovena - Housewife
Corrado Pani
Leonida Montest - Mother
Elena Fancora - Cashier
Anna Filippini - Daughter
Giorgio Listuzzi - Policeman
Maria Zanoli - Housekeeper