Description:
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 exqiusite adaptation od Dostoyevsky's "White Nights," translates this romantic, shattering tale of two restless souls into a ravishing black-and-white dream.
Special Features:
- New, restored high-definition digital transfer, supervised by cinematographer Giuseppe Rotunno
- A collection of interviews from 2003 featuring screenwriter Suso Cecchi D’Amico, film critics Laura Delli Colli and Lino Miccichè, cinematographer Rotunno, and costume designer Piero Tosi
- New audio recording of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s short story "White Nights," also downloadable as an MP3
- Rare screen-test footage of Marcello Mastroianni and Maria Schell
- Original theatrical trailer
- New and improved English subtitle translation
- Plus: a new essay by film scholar Geoffrey Nowell-Smith