Product Description

Australia released, PAL/Region 0 DVD:it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada: LANGUAGES: Italian ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ),English ( Subtitles ),SPECIAL FEATURES: Biographies, Interactive Menu,SYNOPSIS: Based on director Luchino Visconti's vision of a peasant uprising, this haunting film details a Sicilian fishing village's battle to rebuild their post-war society in the face of an exploitative wholesaler. Visconti's purest excursion into neorealism and a masterpiece of post-war Italian cinema, La Terra Trema features striking location photography, an obscure Sicilian dialect, and an entire cast of non-professional actors. It vividly, and beautifully, captures the struggles of a real-life family facing economic abuse, and abuse from the forces of nature in the roiling Mediterranean seas having mortgaged their home to buy a boat and thus escape their poverty, the family lose everything when the boat is destroyed in a storm. Visconti said of the film: 'The story grew from day to day, following the more or less logical order of a scenario that was more often than not suggested to me by the actors themselves.'
SCREENED/AWARDED AT: Venice Film Festival,

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #219288 in DVD
• Formats: Import, PAL, Subtitled
• Subtitled in: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 153 minutes

Features

• THIS DVD WILL NOT WORK ON STANDARD US DVD PLAYER