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How Italy became Europe's rice producer CNN 3/5/2021 © Lux Film/Sunset Boulevard/Corbis/Getty Images Silvana Mangano with Vittorio Gassman in "Riso Amaro." It was the movie that added sex appeal to the gritty neorealist film period and made a star out of actress Silvana Mangano. "Riso Amaro" ("Bitter Rice"), featured women wearing daring shorts with ripped stockings tramping through water, girl-on-girl mud-wrestling, and Mangano's ample cleavage in everything from tight t-shirts to a negligee. © American Stock Archive/Archive Photos/Getty Images Mondine in the rice fields of Piedmont...

It was the movie that added sex appeal to the gritty neorealist film period and made a star out of actress Silvana Mangano.

Mon 25 Jan 2021 08.00 EST The first scene in Giuseppe De Santis’ 1949 film Riso Amaro (Bitter Rice) is at Turin train station. Waves of women, of all ages, make their way across the tracks to board a train for Vercelli and 40 days of work as seasonal rice paddy workers known as mondine. Also in the throng is petty thief Walter (Vittorio Gassman) and his accomplice, Francesca (Doris Dowling), who are on the run from the police after stealing a necklace. Having tracked the waves of women, the camera chases the couple as they try to escape and infiltrate the mondine, then glides through the p...