“Le notti bianche” (White Nights) is a film by the director Luchino Visconti, based on a short story by Fyodor Dostoevsky.The movie, starring Maria Schell, Marcello Mastroianni and Jean Marais, won the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1957.
A peculiarity of this movie is that the story is set in a derelict post-war Livorno, plausibly reconstructed in Rome's Cinecittà Studios.
The action, not much of it considered the kind of film, takes place mostly in the quarter of “Venezia Nuova” (New Venice), with its canals and bridges slightly beautified. It is hard to recognize any real place, but they caught quite well the essence of it.The bridges of Venezia Nuova:
Ponte di Marmo - Ponte dei Domenicani - Ponte della Venezia
Ponte di San Giovanni - Ponte dell'Angiolo - Ponte del Luogo Pio
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