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Rocco e i suoi fratelli (1960) More at IMDbPro »

• Milan's council withdrew permission to stage a murder scene in a popular tourist spot. They subsequently banned the film despite even after 45 minutes of questionable material had been removed.
  
  
• Renato Salvatori and Annie Girardot became lovers in real life.
  
  
• Filming was highly problematic, as Luchino Visconti found himself continually denied promised permits, and was forced to shoot in unsuitable locations. To add insult to injury, he was forced to make some deep cuts to his finished film.
  
  
• When it was first released in the US in 1961, about half an hour of footage was cut out as it was deemed to be too violent for American audiences.
  
  
• Frenchman Alain Delon was dubbed.
  
  
• Francis Ford Coppola was such a big fan of this film that he hired its composer, Nino Rota, to score his 1972 masterwork, The Godfather (1972).
  
  
• Despite the censorship problems - or perhaps because of them - the film was a big commercial success in its native Italy.
  
  
• The 13 onscreen stabbings in the European cut of the film were whittled down to just 3 for the American version.
  
  

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