ROCCO AND HIS BROTHERS
Special Features: 4K Restoration | Intro by Angel Gil-Ordóñez, Conductor and Music Director at PostClassical Ensemble, on Feb. 1
[ROCCO E I SUOI FRATELLI]
Formidable Italian matriarch Rosaria (Katina Paxinou) leads the Parondi family from the impoverished south to the industries of Milan. The film is both a documentation of a tragic exodus and a depiction of a family’s melodramatic disintegration, as the love of Alain Delon’s Dostoyevskyan Rocco for the prostitute Nadia (Annie Girardot) drives his brutish brother Simone (Renato Salvatori) to rape and murder. Luchino Visconti’s first great international success (in the same annus mirabilis as L’AVVENTURA and LA DOLCE VITA) was also his own personal favorite and features an operatic score by Academy Award® winner Nino Rota. DIR/SCR Luchino Visconti; SCR Suso Cecchi D’Amico, Pasquale Festa Campanile, Massimo Franciosa, Enrico Medioli, from the novel “Il ponte della Ghisolfa” by Giovanni Testori; PROD Goffredo Lombardo. Italy/France, 1960, b&w, 179 min. In Italian with English subtitles. NOT RATED
In Memoriam: Alain Delon (1935–2024)
Co-presented with PostClassical Ensemble. Tickets available now for “Beyond THE GODFATHER: The Concert Music of Nino Rota” at The Kennedy Center on Tue, March 18 at 7:30 p.m. Click here for more information and tickets.
Run Time: 179 Minutes
Opening Date: Saturday, February 01, 2025
Genre: Drama