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Release Date:
26 June 1961 (USA) morePlot:
The widow Rosaria moves to Milano from Lucania with her 4 sons, one of whom is Rocco. The fifth son... more | add synopsisAwards:
Nominated for 2 BAFTA Film Awards. Another 7 wins & 1 nomination moreUser Comments:
stunning neorrealism moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Alain Delon | ... | Rocco Parondi | |
| Renato Salvatori | ... | Simone Parondi | |
| Annie Girardot | ... | Nadia | |
| Katina Paxinou | ... | Rosaria Parondi | |
| Alessandra Panaro | ... | Ciro's Fiancee | |
| Spiros Focás | ... | Vincenzo Parondi (as Spiros Focas) | |
| Max Cartier | ... | Ciro Parondi | |
| Corrado Pani | ... | Ivo | |
| Rocco Vidolazzi | ... | Luca Parondi | |
| Claudia Mori | ... | Laundrey Worker | |
| Adriana Asti | ... | Laundrey Worker | |
| Enzo Fiermonte | ... | Boxer | |
| Nino Castelnuovo | ... | Nino Rossi | |
| Rosario Borelli | ... | Un biscazziere | |
| Renato Terra | ... | Alfredo, Ginetta's brother |
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Rocco and His Brothers (UK) (USA)Rocco et ses frères (France)
Rocco et ses freres (France) (DVD title)
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Spain:168 min (DVD edition) | Italy:177 minLanguage:
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1.66 : 1 moreSound Mix:
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Australia:M | Finland:K-16 (uncut) (1985) | Finland:K-16 (cut) (1962) | Italy:VM14 (restored version) | Sweden:15 | USA:Approved | West Germany:18 (w) | UK:15 (video rating) (1991) | UK:X (original rating)MOVIEmeter: 
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Visconti at his peak. We are in the fifties, when Italian economy experiences a post-war boom. A Sicilian family arrives to Milan running from south's poverty. They dream with a new life at the industrial pole of the north. But Milan is not precisely a land of opportunities. Exploitation and xenophobia is the common destiny for those who came from south of the country. This film is a perfect sequel to "La Terra Tembla", one of the earliest Visconti's looks on Marxism. The hopes and lives of this five brother's family sink onto a pit at the same time as they destroy themselves. "Rocco and ..." is intensely played by the entire cast, including a young and delicate Alain Delon as the idealistic Rocco, an exquisite Annie Girardot as a prostitute trying to survive to her own hell and a terrific Renato Salvatori. But is the figure of the peasant mother, played superbly by Katina Paxinou, the most remarkable piece of this operatic story. Claudia Cardinale made some kind of Italian debut in this film. Nino Rota composes his most pitiful score and the black and white photography is stunning. The scene at the rooftop of Milan's Duomo is one of my all-time favorites. The American version is usually cut so try to find the original or some DVD restoration. A must see film.