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Rocco et ses frères

Original title: Rocco e i suoi fratelli
  • 1960
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  • 2h 59m
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Alain Delon, Annie Girardot, and Renato Salvatori in Rocco et ses frères (1960)
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Having recently been uprooted to Milan, Rocco and his four brothers each look for a new way in life when a prostitute comes between Rocco and his brother Simone.Having recently been uprooted to Milan, Rocco and his four brothers each look for a new way in life when a prostitute comes between Rocco and his brother Simone.Having recently been uprooted to Milan, Rocco and his four brothers each look for a new way in life when a prostitute comes between Rocco and his brother Simone.

  • Director
    • Luchino Visconti
  • Writers
    • Luchino Visconti
    • Suso Cecchi D'Amico
    • Vasco Pratolini
  • Stars
    • Alain Delon
    • Renato Salvatori
    • Annie Girardot
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  • IMDb RATING
    8.2/10
    24K
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    • Director
      • Luchino Visconti
    • Writers
      • Luchino Visconti
      • Suso Cecchi D'Amico
      • Vasco Pratolini
    • Stars
      • Alain Delon
      • Renato Salvatori
      • Annie Girardot
    • 69User reviews
    • 92Critic reviews
    • 84Metascore
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Nominated for 2 BAFTA Awards
      • 12 wins & 10 nominations total

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    Alain Delon
    Alain Delon
    • Rocco Parondi
    Renato Salvatori
    Renato Salvatori
    • Simone Parondi
    Annie Girardot
    Annie Girardot
    • Nadia
    Claudia Cardinale
    Claudia Cardinale
    • Ginetta Giannelli
    Katina Paxinou
    Katina Paxinou
    • Rosaria Parondi
    Alessandra Panaro
    Alessandra Panaro
    • Franca - la fidanzata di Ciro
    Spyros Fokas
    Spyros Fokas
    • Vincenzo Parondi
    • (as Spiros Focas)
    Max Cartier
    • Ciro Parondi
    Corrado Pani
    Corrado Pani
    • Ivo
    Rocco Vidolazzi
    • Luca Parondi
    Claudia Mori
    Claudia Mori
    • Ida - Una Lavandaia
    Adriana Asti
    Adriana Asti
    • Un'altra lavandaia
    Enzo Fiermonte
    Enzo Fiermonte
    • L'allenatore di pugilato
    Nino Castelnuovo
    Nino Castelnuovo
    • Nino Rossi
    Rosario Borelli
    • Il Biscazziere
    Renato Terra
    Renato Terra
    • Alfredo - il fratello di Ginetta
    Roger Hanin
    Roger Hanin
    • Duilio Morini
    Paolo Stoppa
    Paolo Stoppa
    • Cerri
    • Director
      • Luchino Visconti
    • Writers
      • Luchino Visconti
      • Suso Cecchi D'Amico
      • Vasco Pratolini
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    10YouRebelScum

    An astonishing work of almost religious intensity

    I was lucky enough to catch this extraordinary film late last night on a cable channel. It's about a widow from southern Italy who moves to Milan with her five sons. Gradually they become embroiled in the big city, some becoming corrupted by its ways, others profiting. Rocco, played by Alain Delon, is an innocent, looking at his brothers and life in general with saintly patience. When his beneficent attitude comes under pressure, he doesn't give in to self-interest, choosing to sacrifice his own happiness, and that of the woman he loves, for his family. Family is really what 'Rocco and his Brothers' is all about. I've never got into Visconti, but seeing this film has made me want to see more of his work. Also, this move has one of the most powerful images I've ever seen, as the maddened Simone advances towards the doomed prostitute Nadia. It's an image so remarkable I actually shouted aloud when I saw it. I urge you to see this film. It's a remarkable, passionate, beautifully photographed drama that will stay with you for a long time.
    10antonio-21

    WOW! Terrific Epic Scale Family Drama, Visconti's Best!

    Now I understand why Visconti regards this classic as his personal favorite!!

    Overwhelmingly Terrific! The acting, design, music, cinematography, and especially direction are superb.

    This epic, grand, personal, and highly dramatic tale of five brothers and their mother who move from Southern Italy to Milan to change their station in life is filled with wonderful vignettes and powerful set pieces.

    The fight between two of the brothers in the slums of the city is one of the most harrowing and touching scenes ever in cinema history. This is the kind of fight which actually means something. When they hit each other you feel it down to the core of your being, not just watching mindless brutality like you would in some brainless movie.

    The cast is uniformly good with standouts from Katina Paxinou as the long suffering mother, Annie Girardot as the doomed prostitute who is the catalyst of the story, and especially Alain Delon who is blessed with a cinematic beauty which adds poetry to everyone of his close-ups. The one actor who really surprised me was Renato Salvatori as the violent brother Simone. His gradual and completely believable change from sweet young man to violent brute is incredible to watch.

    This film satisfies every true movie lovers dream. To visit a place you don't know, with characters who fascinate you, and are framed in a true CINEMATIC style, that succeeds on every level.

    GO SEE THIS MOVIE!! I will add my voice to those who cry out for the DVD release of this true classic.
    10olddiscs

    A GREAT FILM from ITALY (1960)

    This is a great Italian film directed by Visconti, which somehow escaped me until tonite 2/22/02.. I had heard about it and the praise it received at that time, (1960) but just never got to see it. I was seeing Foreign films at that time, I remember seeing La Dolce Vita, The Virgin Spring, and Hiroshima Mon Amour at our local foreign movie theatre in Essex County , The Ormont in East Orange.. long gone.. but missed this. Well, thanks to TCM, Ive had another sleepless night & have just seen a truly great Italian movie/ or great movie, period!!..What a saga ! what passion, what emotion !! The story of a southern Italian peasant family's journey and relocation to the big city... is just superb film making..The deterioration of the brothers relationship is almost pure GreeK Tragedy (there is a glimmer of hope with the youngest brother)...superbly acted especially by Renato Salvatori, as Simon, the most troubled of all the fratelli, and young, beautiful, Alain Delon as the younger brother Rocco who desperately tries to save his brother from destruction; and Annie Giradot, as Nadia the prostitute who adds to this families woes is just sensational in a role that should have won her all kinds of trophies. It was no mistake that Visconti used Greek Oscar winning actress, Katina Paxinou, in the role of an Italian mother( instead of say, Anna Magnani ?), her performance brings to mind all the heroines of Sophocles & Aesculus... yes tragedy and emotion of epic proportions..played to the nth degree... beautiful cast excellently directed... by Viscont1... thanks to TCM Im catching up on his great movies "SENSO" a few months back and now "Rocco" this is a treat.. also in cast a very young beautiful Claudia Cardinale as Ginetta.. This is film making at its best..dont miss it.. to be seen again and again..
    9blanche-2

    Visconti's masterwork

    This is perhaps Visconti's most powerful work, though today it may seem a little overwrought and dated.

    "Rocco e sui fratelli" from 1960 is about a rural family (Katina Paxinou as Rosaria, Alain Delon as Rocco, Renato Salvatori as Simone, Spiros Focás as Vincenzo, Max Cartier as Ciro and Rocco Vidolazzi as Luca) who move from southern Italy to Milano, hoping to make a better life for themselves.

    The brothers are all different, and therein lies the story, with the focus particularly on Rocco (Delon), a gentle soul who cares about his family and his family's honor, and Simone (Salvatori), a man with an addictive personality who only cares about himself.

    Both Rocco and Simone fall for the same woman, a hooker (Anne Girardot) and come to blows - physically, since both Simone and Rocco train as boxers.

    This isn't always an easy film to watch as it contains violence, rape, and murder. It also is extremely melodramatic by today's standards, with Paxinou's strong performance as the mother perhaps being viewed today as over the top. Acting styles have changed.

    It's also a rather misogynistic film - well, it is Italy, it is another time period, and I'm not one who believes in cancel culture. It is also overly long - I saw the cut version, I believe, 168 minutes. I think certain scenes were cut due to censorship.

    Though the film is in black and white, the look of Italy is amazing and expansive, as is the acting, particularly from Delon and Salvatori as they come up against one another in a biblical story. Claudia Cardinale pre-nosejob has a small role.

    Delon, of course, is gorgeous. Hard to believe he'll be 85 this year.
    Vincentiu

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    I am a fan of Visconti movies. for the Barroco nuances and poetry of small things. for beauty of details and courage to present slices of a neorealism in which is mixed nostalgic crumbs of a world fall and need of new society definition. Rocco was first movie by him who I saw it. a film - bitter story. picture of a family, map of searches, touching drawing of a victory of city and the love as delicate web. and, sure, one of wonderful roles of Alain Delon. in fact, a gate, or only a window to a time who becomes ours. because story is universal. and the figure of poor mother - letter of a never ending poem , is remarkable. end of an age. seed of a new form of self definition for Italian cinema. but, very important, testimony, not about a period. but a state of soul. must see it !

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    • Trivia
      Francis Ford Coppola was such a big fan of this film that he hired its composer, Nino Rota, to score his 1972 masterwork, Le Parrain (1972).
    • Quotes

      Ciro Parondi: Brothers or not, we're seeds taken from the same sack meant to bear fruit. A seed gone bad must be weeded out. Just like when we cleaned lentils.

    • Alternate versions
      Originally released at 180 minutes in Italy. Local censorship forced director Visconti to cut a few sequences (including scenes from Nadia's rape); the film was subsequently shortened even more for foreign distribution. Director of photography Giuseppe Rotunno has prepared a restored full version, which has been re-released in 1991.
    • Connections
      Featured in Sunday Night: Man of Three Worlds: Luchino Visconti (1966)
    • Soundtracks
      E vero
      Written by and Umberto Bindi

      Performed by Umberto Bindi

      Courtesy Ricordi

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    • Release date
      • March 10, 1961 (France)
    • Countries of origin
      • Italy
      • France
    • Language
      • Italian
    • Also known as
      • Rocco and His Brothers
    • Filming locations
      • Stazione Centrale, Milan, Lombardia, Italy
    • Production companies
      • Titanus
      • Les Films Marceau
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    • Gross worldwide
      • $22,013
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    • Runtime
      2 hours 59 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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