Product Details
- An MVD Exclusive
- SKU: AAD004
- Format: DVD
- UPC: 760137098492
- Street Date: 01/30/18
- PreBook Date: 12/05/17
- Label: Arrow Video »
- Genre: Drama
- Run Time: 121 mins
- Number of Discs: 1
- Audio: STEREO
- Year of Production: 1967
- Region Code: 1
- Box Lot: 0
- Territory: US
- Language: Italian
Cast & Crew
- Actors:
- SILVANA MANGANO
- CLINT EASTWOOD
- TOTO
- NINETTO DAVOLI
- Director: LUCHINO VISCONTI
- Director: FRANCO ROSSI
- Director: PIER PAOLO PASOLINI
- Director: MAURO BOLOGNINI
- Director: VITTORIO DE SICA
Product Assets
The Witches
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In the mid-sixties, famed producer Dino De Laurentiis brought together the talents of five celebrated Italian directors for an anthology film. Their brief was simple: to direct an episode in which Silvana Mangano (Bitter Rice, Ludwig) plays a witch. Luchino Visconti (Ossessione, Death in Venice) and screenwriter Cesare Zavattini (Bicycle Thieves) open the film with The Witch Burned Alive, about a famous actress and a drunken evening that leads to unpleasant revelations. Civic Sense is a lightly comic interlude from Mauro Bolognini (The Lady of the Camelias) with a dark conclusion, and The Earth as Seen from the Moon sees Italian comedy legend Totò team up with Pier Paolo Pasolini (Theorem) for the first time for a tale of matrimony and a red-headed father and son. Franco Rosso (The Woman in the Painting) concocts a story of revenge in The Sicilian's Wife, while Vittorio De Sica (Shoeshine) casts Clint Eastwood as Mangano's estranged husband in An Evening Like the Others, concluding The Witches with a stunning homage to Italian comic books.
Press Quotes
Between the excellent A/V presentation and Tim Lucas' illuminating audio commentary, Arrow Academy's release of the film is a wonderful new discovery.
—The Digital Bits
