Le notti bianche

1957 [ITALIAN]

Drama / Romance

12
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 92% · 13 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 89% · 1K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.7/10 10 10456 10.5K

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Plot summary

A middle-aged man meets a young woman who is waiting on a canal bridge for her lover's return.

Director

Luchino Visconti Photo
Luchino Visconti

Top cast

Giorgio Albertazzi Photo
Giorgio Albertazzi as L'inquilino / Narratore
Enzo Doria Photo
Enzo Doria as Il marinaio che balla
Dirk Sanders Photo
Dirk Sanders as Il ballerino
Clara Calamai Photo
Clara Calamai as La prostituta
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936.05 MB
1196*720
Italian 2.0
Not Rated
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 41 min
Seeds 6
1.7 GB
1764*1062
Italian 2.0
Not Rated
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 41 min
Seeds 19

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by CinemaSerf 7 / 10

Marcello Mastroianni espies a young woman who is

Marcello Mastroianni espies a young woman who is waiting, patiently, by a bridge. Initially he thinks she is one of the ladies of the night but as he passes he thinks he hears her crying. Distressed, she tries to flee from him but he manages to calm her down and they chat. They agree to meet next evening, same place same time - and that's the start of this charmingly simple drama that sees "Mario" and "Natalia" (Maria Schell) begin to confide in each other and cement a bond borne out of both of their emotional desires and frustrations. We also find out just why she waits each night. There are moments of intensity and joy as this story unfolds and we see a love burgeoning. Can it ever result in anything, though? The cold wintery evenings, the snow, the canals - they all add an eerie richness to two potent performances that show the vulnerabilities of their characters, their longings, disappointments and their hopes. Visconti also amiably incorporates a sense of family into the story well too. His being more around the relationship with the loudly omnipresent, but caring, landlady of his hotel (Marcella Rovena) and her's with her ageing grandmother - who rather comically uses a safety pin to adjoin their shirts so she cannot wander off! There is comedy here, but this film also has a sadness to it. Not a melancholic one, more an inevitability that somehow you just know is going to leave one of them quite possibly worse off in the end. Dostoevsky didn't much like "happy" endings - so don't go expecting one here, but there's a delicate chemistry to enjoy between Mastroianni and Schnell.
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Reviewed by ngoksel 8 / 10

The film has been shot in Livorno? Not Studio !

I watched the film many times and thought that the film has been shot at Venezia. Now I'm wathching the film again and saw some street names, like these : Scali delle pietre, Scali del Pesce etc. I began to search these names and found that the film location is not Venezia,but it is Livorno.

If you pay attention the street names or place in the film, you could find same location in Livorno. There is very little changes after 60 years.

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