Directed by Luchino Visconti and starring Alain Delon, Rocco and His Brothers (1960) is an Italian family drama about southern migrants struggling to adapt to life in industrial Milan. The film explores loyalty, ambition, jealousy, and sacrifice within a fractured family structure. Widely regarded as a major work of Italian post-war cinema, it reflects themes of social change and moral conflict.

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From Luchino Visconti the master director of such classics as La terra trema, Bellissima, and The Leopard  comes this epic study of family, sex, and betrayal. Alongside Fellinis La dolce vita and Antonionis Lavventura, Viscontis Rocco and His Brothers [Rocco e i suoi fratelli] ushered Italian cinema into a new era, one unafraid to confront head-on the hypocrisies of the ruling class, the squalor in urban living, and the collision between generations.

When a tight-knit family moves from Italys rural south to metropolitan Milan, the new possibilities and threats present in their fresh surroundings have alarming, unforeseen consequences. Operatically weaving the five brothers stories across a vast canvas, with an extraordinary cast including Alain Delon, Annie Girardot and Claudia Cardinale, Rocco and His Brothers stands as one of the most majestic and influential works of its era.

An acknowledged influence on Coppolas The Godfather series (Nino Rotas exquisite Rocco score for Visconti led to working on The Godfather), Scorseses Raging Bull, and many others, Rocco and His Brothers is a cinematic shock that erupts on the fault-line of emotion. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present one of Viscontis most revered films winner of the FIPRESCI Prize and the Special Prize at the Venice Film Festival in 1960 restored to its original Italian-language three-hour form for