Rocco e i suoi fratelli
Subtitle: Rocco and his brothers
By: una produzione Titanus, co-produzione italo-francese Titanus (Roma), Les Film Marceau (Paris) ; prodotto da Goffredo Lombardo ; sceneggiatura e dialoghi, Suso Cecche D'Amico ... [et al.] ; regia di Luchino Visconti
Contributors: Delon, Alain, 1935-; Girardot, Annie, 1931-2011; Salvatori, Renato; Paxinou, Katina, 1900-1973; Cardinale, Claudia, 1939-; Titanus (Firm); Films Marceau; Connoisseur Video Collection (Firm)
Publisher: Connoisseur Video Collection
Published: 1990
Place of publication: [Los Angeles, CA]
Language: ita
Format: [videorecording] =
Number of pages: 170
Subjects: Feature films; Families; Drama; Poor; Foreign films; Italian Motion pictures
Other titles: Rocco and his brothers; Luchino Visconti's Rocco & his brothers; Rocco & his brothers
Description: Spread over half-a-dozen years, each of five episodes concentrates on one of five peasant brothers who, with their widowed mother, Rosaria, migrate to industrial Milan from poverty-stricken Southern Italy. The story dissects the psychological impact of a society that presents its poor with only destructive opportunities.
Notes: Originally produced as motion picture in 1960.

Camera, Guiseppe Rotunno; editor, Mario Serandrei; music, Nino Rota.

Alain Delon, Annie Girardot, Renato Salvatori, Katina Paxinou, Claudia Cardinale.

VHS; hi-fi mono.

In Italian with English subtitles.