When a widow’s family moves to the big city, two of her sons become romantic rivals, with deadly results.
Looking for opportunity, five brothers move north with their mother to Milan. There, Simone and Rocco find fame, in the boxing ring, and love, in the same woman—Nadia. Jealousy mounts, blood is shed, and a striving family faces self-destruction in this incisive, sensuous, emotionally bruising masterwork from director Luchino Visconti (The Leopard, Senso).
With an operatic Nino Rota score and Giuseppe Rotunno’s glimmering, on-location cinematography, Rocco and His Brothers “represents the artistic apotheosis of Italian neorealism,” says A.O. Scott of The New York Times. Drawing from Dostoevsky and Thomas Mann, Visconti arranges his signature themes—modernity, class tension, familial discord—across an epic canvas that directly influenced later Italian-American sagas by Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorsese. Alain Delon, Annie Girardot, Renato Salvatori, and Claudia Cardinale lead the cast of gorgeous unknowns who rose to stardom in the wake of this film’s bow at the 1960 Venice Film Festival, where it was greeted with scandal and won the Special Jury Prize.
Painstakingly restored in 4K by the Film Foundation and the Cineteca di Bologna, Rocco and His Brothers has never looked or sounded so pristine. Praised by Scorsese as “one of the most sumptuous black-and-white pictures,” Rocco’s baroque, impassioned majesty can once again be experienced as its filmmakers intended.
Alain Delon | Rocco Parondi | |
Renato Salvatori | Simone Parondi | |
Annie Girardot | Nadia | |
Katina Paxinou | Rosaria Parondi | |
Alessandra Panaro | Franca - la fidanzata di Ciro | |
Spiros Focás | Vincenzo Parondi | |
Max Cartier | Ciro Parondi | |
Corrado Pani | Ivo | |
Rocco Vidolazzi | Luca Parondi | |
Claudia Mori | Ida - Una Lavandaia | |
Adriana Asti | Un'altra lavandaia | |
Enzo Fiermonte | L'allenatore di pugilato | |
Nino Castelnuovo | Nino Rossi | |
Rosario Borelli | Il Biscazziere | |
Renato Terra | Alfredo - il fratello di Ginetta | |
Roger Hanin | Duilio Morini | |
Paolo Stoppa | Cerri | |
Suzy Delair | Luisa | |
Claudia Cardinale | Ginetta Giannelli | |
Jerome Adjer | Webster - Il Pugile Negro | |
Orlando Baralla | Un croupier | |
Luigi Basagaluppi | ||
Sauveur Chioca | Pugile | |
Bruno Fortilli | Pugile | |
Biagio Gambini | Un'altro allenatore di pugilato |
Director | Luchino Visconti | |
Writer | Luchino Visconti, Suso Cecchi d'Amico, Vasco Pratolini, Pasquale Festa Campanile, Massimo Franciosa, Enrico Medioli, Giovanni Testori | |
Producer | Goffredo Lombardo, Edmond Ténoudji | |
Musician | Nino Rota | |
Photography | Giuseppe Rotunno |
Quantity | 1 |
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Seen | |
Added Date | Jul 13, 2018 20:18:33 |
Modified Date | Jun 12, 2022 00:34:43 |
Screen Ratios | Widescreen (1.85:1) |
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Audio Tracks | SUB [English] |
Distributor | Milestone |
Edition Release Date | Jul 10, 2018 |
Bonus Features!!!
NEW 4K RESTORATION by the Film Foundation and Cineteca di Bologna
Video introduction by Martin Scorsese
New video interview with Caterina d’Amico, daughter of legendary screenwriter Suso Cecchi d’Amico (Rocco, The Leopard, Bicycle Thieves).
Video interview with cast and crew
Before-and-after restoration featurette
Original production outtakes