Rocco and His Brothers

Moving from Southern to Northern Italy to find work in the town of Milan, a poor family from a rural village is slowly crushed between their hopes and the reality of living in a quickly developing industrial city. Loosely inspired by three interconnected short stories by Giovanni Testori, "Rocco and His Brothers" plays out as a Greek tragedy staged on the backdrop of the Italian Post-war economic boom and the domestic migration that came with it. While characters seem to be extremely typified, particularly in the juxtaposition between the feral fragility of Simone (Salvatori) and the read more

The Parondi family comes from a southern Italian village, after its patriarch passes away, the mother Rosaria (Paxinou) decides to bring her other four sons Simone (Salvatori), Rocco (Delon), Ciro (Cartier) and the underage Luca (Vidolazzi) to seek refuge with her eldest son Vincenzo (Focás) in Milan. Their unexpected arrival instantly en-kindles a wrangle with the family of Ginetta (Cardinale), Vincenzo's fiancée. In the opening gambit, Visconti manifests how he is well-versed in orchestrating a huge cast simultaneously and effectively expediting the scenes from a festive get-together to a... read more