How Italy became Europe s rice producer CNN 3/5/2021 © Lux Film/Sunset Boulevard/Corbis/Getty Images Silvana Mangano with Vittorio Gassman in Riso Amaro.
It was the movie that added sex appeal to the gritty neorealist film period and made a star out of actress Silvana Mangano. Riso Amaro ( Bitter Rice ), featured women wearing daring shorts with ripped stockings tramping through water, girl-on-girl mud-wrestling, and Mangano s ample cleavage in everything from tight t-shirts to a negligee. © American Stock Archive/Archive Photos/Getty Images Mondine in the rice fields of Piedmont, circa 1920-1950.
The film, a neorealist thriller-slash-tragedy, saw a criminal couple infiltrate the rice fields in Italy s Piedmont region, and ticked off gun fights and a rice heist.
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Sandro Pierri as Deputy CEO, with effect from 1 January 2021. This is in addition to his role as Head of BNPP AM’s Global Client Group, which he has held since 2017. Pierri is based in London and reports to Frédéric Janbon, CEO of BNPP AM. Pierri has more than 30 years’ experience in the asset management industry. He began his career in 1989 as a portfolio manager with San Paolo Fondi, moving to BNL Gestioni in 1992, before joining ING Investment Management in Italy in 1994, where he held several commercial roles. Between 2002 and 2003 he was Chief Executive of ING Group’s Italian retail business. Following the acquisition by UniCredit/Pioneer of ING’s Italian business, he joined Pioneer Investments, UniCredit’s asset management division, in 2004. He spent 10 years in various commercial and managerial positions, including being appointed CEO in 2012.