Rocco e i suoi fratelli (Rocco and His Brothers). 1959. Directed by Luchino Visconti

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Rocco e i suoi fratelli (Rocco and His Brothers). 1960. Italy. Directed by Luchino Visconti. Courtesy of Cinecittà.

Rocco e i suoi fratelli (Rocco and His Brothers). 1959. Italy. Directed by Luchino Visconti. Screenplay by Visconti, Suso Cecchi D’Amico, Pasquale Festa Campanile, Massimo Franciosa, Enrico Medioli. With Alain Delon, Claudia Cardinale, Annie Girardot, Renato Salvatori.Restored by Cineteca di Bologna in association with Titanus, TF1 Droits Audiovisuels and The Film Foundation. Restoration funding by Gucci and The Film Foundation; courtesy Intramovies and Milestone Films. In Italian; English subtitles. Restored by Cineteca di Bologna in association with Titanus, TF1 Droits Audiovisuels and The Film Foundation. Restoration funding by Gucci and The Film Foundation. Courtesy Intramovies and Milestone Films. 177 min.

The chiaroscuro beauty of Visconti’s widescreen black-and-white compositions gives complexity and nuance to this drama of a peasant widow and her five sons escaping the poverty of southern Italy to make a new life for themselves in the northern industrial city of Milan. Rocco was an international success, making it possible for Visconti to elaborate on the film’s thematic clashes between the past and the future, the individual and the collective, sensuous hotheaded emotion and cooly cerebral intellectualism, in his magisterial The Leopard three years later, as he continued his fruitful collaboration with Claudia Cardinale.

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