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Rocco and His Brothers
ITALY · 1960

Rocco and His Brothers

Luchino Visconti
family conflict class struggle immigrant experience romantic rivalry moral corruption
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Synopsis

When a impoverished widow’s family moves to the big city, two of her five sons become romantic rivals with deadly results.

Cinema Atlas Connection
My big influences were Luchino Visconti’s Rocco and His Brothers and films like that... I was very young when I made The Godfather.
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