Le Notti Bianche (Criterion) DVD

• 1.0 Dolby Digital Mono (Italian)
• New, restored high-definition Digital transfer, supervised by cinematographer Giuseppe Rotunno
• A collection of interviews, from 2003, with screenwriter Suso Cecchi D'Amico, film critics Laura Delli Colli and Lino Miccichè, cinematographer Giuseppe Rotunno, and costume designer Piero Tosi
• New audio recording of Dostoyevsky's "White Nights," also downloadable as an MP3
• Rare screen test of Mastroianni and Schell
• Original theatrical trailer
• New and improved English subtitle translation
• Plus: a new essay by film scholar Geoffrey Nowell-Smith

Director: Luchino Visconti
Marcello Mastroianni, Maria Schell, Jean Marais, Clara Calamai, Alberto Carloni, Elena Fancora

A chance encounter on a canal bridge results in a series of twilight rendezvous between a lonely city transplant (Marcello Mastroianni) and a sheltered woman (Maria Schell) haunted by a lover’s promise. Their hesitant courtship soon entangles both of them in a web of longing and self-delusion. Adapted from the Fyodor Dostoyevsky short story, director Luchino Visconti’s Le notti bianche—shot in ravishing black and white—is a romantic, shattering tale of the restlessness of dreamers.