Rocco and His Brothers (1960) on Netflix
After their father dies, Rosaria Parondi brings four sons from Lucania to Milan, where the eldest, Vincenzo, lives. Rocco looks for work while Simone takes up boxing and falls for Nadia.
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Plot summary
Vincenzo Parondi has settled in the Milan suburb of Lambrate, and his widowed mother Rosaria arrives there with his four younger brothers from Lucania. Ginetta, Vincenzo's fiancee, and her family object to the unemployed southerners, so the newcomers settle in an unheated basement. Vincenzo marries Ginetta, and the four younger brothers must find their own footing in the city. Simone, the second son, has trouble adapting to urban life. He takes up boxing, which his mother encourages as a quick route to fame and wealth, and falls in love with Nadia, a prostitute. Military service calls away Rocco, the third son.
Cast
- Rocco Vidolazzias Luca Parondi
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Rocco and His Brothers (1960)
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Italian authorities seized the negative of Rocco and His Brothers twenty days after its Italian opening, acting on a request from Cardinal Secretary of State Domenico Tardini against "certain destructive films". Producer Goffredo Lombardo avoided confiscation by agreeing to darken four scenes, and Visconti was never told that two were later cut.SPOILER
Provincial premier Adrio Casati blocked previously approved filming permits once he learned Visconti planned to shoot the climactic murder at the Idroscalo recreation area, because a young prostitute had recently been murdered there. Visconti moved the scene to Lago di Fondi in Lazio.- A local judge named Pafundi, who had heard rumours about the film's content and did not want people to think it was about him, threatened to sue the producers. Visconti therefore re-dubbed and re-edited the film during post-production to rename the central family from "Pafundi" to "Parondi".
- Renato Salvatori, who played Simone, and Annie Girardot, who played Nadia, eloped during the Milan shoot of Rocco and His Brothers and married two years later.
- Francis Ford Coppola cited Rocco and His Brothers as an inspiration for The Godfather, Martin Scorsese put it on his list of 39 foreign films to see before you die, and Roger Ebert added it to his Great Movies list in 2008.
- In 2008 the film was placed on the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage's 100 Italian films to be saved, a list of films said to have changed the collective memory of the country between 1942 and 1978.
