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Recommended Rocco and His Brothers (Masters of Cinema)

Luchino Visconti, 1960

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Massively popular on first release and a firm favourite even today, Visconti’s Rocco and His Brothers is an audacious blend of realism and melodrama. There is realism at ground level in the observation and recreation of physical environments and realism of a more aspiring kind in the social analysis. But as the story develops so both the situation and the way it is played acquire a more and more melodramatic – indeed operatic – tone. A family migrates from impoverished southern Italy to the relative prosperity of Milan. Regular work is short but for two of the brothers boxing looks like providing a ladder to success. Success, however, does not come easy, nor do the boys brought up in a rural, feudal environment find it easy to adapt to more modern values. The film is structured like one of the romantic symphonies Visconti loved so much. It climaxes dramatically with rape, murder, treachery and the destruction of the family and its values. But there is then a subdued ending in which a possible new order is affirmed.

Geoffrey Nowell-Smith on 4th February 2008

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DVD Extras
  • 2 discs. New anamorphic restoration of the film in its fully uncut original 3-hour Italian release version
  • New and improved English subtitles
  • Three hours of extras, including newsreels from 1960
  • lengthy interviews with cinematographer Giuseppe Rotunno, and stars of the film Annie Girardot and Claudia Cardinale
  • Original Italian trailer
  • Two documentaries - TF1's Les Coulisses du tournage, and RAI's hour-long 'Luchino Visconti'
  • 40-page booklet featuring archival imagery, articles by Luchino Visconti ("The Miracle That Gave Man Crumbs") and respected Italian film critic Guido Aristarco ("The Earth Still Trembles"), and a rare interview with Visconti ("Questions for the Author") translated into English for the first time.
Film Details

Director

Luchino Visconti

Year

1960

Country

Europe, Italy

Cast

Alain Delon, Claudia Cardinale, Renato Salvatori, Annie Girardot, Nino Castelnuovo

Technical Details

Certificate

15

Length

170 mins

Label

EUREK

Format

DVD B&W

Region

Cat No

EKA40257

Main Language

Italian

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