Rocco and His Brothers (Rocco e i suoi fratelli) in 4K

Rocco and His Brothers (Rocco e i suoi fratelli) in 4K

Selected by the Writers Branch. Special guest: Introduction by filmmaker James Gray.

Selected by the Writers Branch.

This epic melodrama from director Luchino Visconti helped to make an international star of French actor Alain Delon, cast as one of five sons of a poor rural Italian family whose fortunes fall even farther after a move to Milan. The screenplay was a collaboration between Visconti and four other writers including Suso Cecchi D’Amico—one of the first female screenwriters in Italian cinema and a key figure in the neorealist movement; her remarkable body of work includes such classics as Bicycle Thieves (1948), Big Deal on Madonna Street (1958), and The Leopard (1963).

DIRECTED BY: Luchino Visconti. WRITTEN BY: Suso Cecchi D’Amico, Pasquale Festa Campanile, Massimo Franciosa, Enrico Medioli, Luchino Visconti. STORY BY: Luchino Visconti, Suso Cecchi D’Amico, Vasco Pratolini. WITH: Alain Delon, Renato Salvatori, Annie Girardot, Katina Paxinou. 1960. 179 min. Italy/France. B&W. Italian. 4K DCP.

Academy Museum film programming generously funded by the Richard Roth Foundation. 


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