Le notti bianche (LE)

Le notti bianche

One fateful night on the streets of Livorno, world-weary Mario (Marcello Mastroianni, Allonsanfan) bumps into Natalia (Maria Schell, The Last Bridge), a visibly distressed young woman. As Marco attempts to comfort her, Natalia recounts the story of a lost love (Jean Marais) who she hears is back in town. In a bid to remain close to her, Mario reluctantly agrees to help Maria find him. Adapted from a Fyodor Dostoyevsky short story, director Luchino Visconti (Senso, La terra trema) captures the agony and ecstasy of infatuation in this exquisite melodrama. Headlined by two stellar performances from Marcello Mastroianni and Maria Schell, Le notti bianche won the Silver Lion at the 1957 Venice Film Festival.

LIMITED EDITION BLU-RAY FEATURES

• 4K restoration by Cinecittà
• Uncompressed mono PCM audio
• Interview with producer and programmer Adrian Wootton (2025)
• Letters From Rome: Luchino Visconti - archival documentary where Visconti is interviewed in Rome by Andre Labarthe (1963)
• Archival interview with actor Marcello Mastroianni (1977)
• Archival interviews with Visconti collaborators and Le notti bianche crew (2003)
• Audiobook reading of Dostoyevsky's original short story ‘White Nights' (2010)
• Trailer
• Newly improved English subtitle translation
• Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Time Tomorrow
• Limited edition booklet featuring a new essay by Pasquale Iannone and archival writing
  
• Limited edition of 3000 copies, presented in full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings

Press:

“A triumph of naturalism… Maria Schell's performance in Le notti bianche is an impressive — an almost formidably, impressive — piece of virtuosity” - Isabel Quigley, The Spectator