First Look at New Restoration of Luchino Visconti's White Nights

French Label Carlotta Films has released a promotional video for a brand new restoration of Luchino Visconti's film Le Notti Bianche a.k.a. White Nights (1957), starring Marcello Mastroianni, Maria Schell, and Jean Marais.

In the United States, Le Notti Bianche is currently available only on DVD, courtesy of the Criterion Collection.

Synopsis: 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. Cinematography by Giuseppe Rotunno (The Leopard). Soundtrack by Nino Rota (The Godfather).