San Francisco Public Library

Le notti bianche, White nights, sogetto e sceneggiatura, Suso Cecchi D'Amico, Luchino Visconti ; un film CI. AS. s.r.l. ; prodotto da Franco Cristaldi, per la Vides ; regia di Luchino Visconti

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1957Based on the short story: Belye nochi / by Fyodor DostoyevskySpecial features: "Visconti's collaborators" (video interviews with screenwriter Suso Cecchi D'Amico, film critic Laura Delli Colli, film critic Lino Micciche, cinematographer Giuseppe Rotunno, & costume designer Piero Tosi about the production of the film ; in Italian with English subtitles, 2003, 17 min.); silent screen tests (Marcello Mastroianni, 2 min.; Maria Schell, 2 min.; Marcello Mastroianni & Maria Schell, 1 min.); recorded reading of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's "White nights" by T. Ryder Smith (playable on DVD players, or downloadable as MP3 files for computers with a DVD-ROM drive ; in English, 114 min.); original theatrical trailerProgram notes on container insert include an essay by film scholar Geoffrey Nowell-Smith"Enhanced for 16:9 televisions"--Disc label

black and white

monaural

Costumes, Piero Tosi ; editing, Mario Serandrei ; director of photography, Giuseppe Rotunno ; music by Nino Rota

other

9780780030114

60629973

videodisc

Maria Schell, Marcello Mastroianni, Jean Marais, Clara Calamai

1 videodisc (101 min.), sound, black and white, 4 3/4 in. +, 1 folded insert (unp. : illustrations ; 18 cm).

sound on medium

videodisc

(OCoLC)60629973

DVD, region 1; Dolby digital mono

037429207826

NOT020 -- Criterion Collection

DVD