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Marcello Mastroianni, as a lonely city transplant, and Maria Schell, as a sheltered girl haunted by a lover’s promise, meet by chance on a canal bridge and begin a tentative romance that quickly entangles them in a web of longing and self-delusion. Luchino Visconti’s Le notti bianche, an exquisite adaptation of Dostoyevsky’s “White Nights,” translates this romantic, shattering tale of two restless souls into a ravishing black-and-white dream.

Special Features:

• Restored high-definition digital transfer, supervised by cinematographer Giuseppe Rotunno
• Interviews 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 footage of Mastroianni and Schell
• Original theatrical trailer
• New and improved English subtitle translation
• Plus: a new essay by film scholar Geoffrey Nowell-Smith