BFI Distribution starts the New Year with the re-release of Luchino Visconti’s operatic and poignant story of brotherhood: ROCCO AND HIS BROTHERS (1960), starring the legendary Alain Delon in one of his most iconic roles, opens in selected cinemas from Friday 3 January 2025.
This hypnotically beautiful tale of relocation, loss and sacrifice charts the fortunes of a family who move from a farm in the rural south to find work in modern Milan during the industrial and economic boom. Of the five brothers accompanying their mother, Alain Delon’s Rocco is tasked with trying to manage the hedonistic appetites of Renato Salvatori’s Simone. They both fall into the shadowy world of boxing, but when they also fall in love with the same woman, Annie Girardot’s Nadia, their loyalties are tested and the family threatens to break apart.
The film features a young Claudia Cardinale (THE LEOPARD) in one of her early roles and has an acclaimed score by composer Nino Rota (THE GODFATHER, THE LEOPARD).
Martin Scorsese describes it as “a masterpiece” and “one of the most sumptuous black and white pictures I’ve ever seen” and Francis Ford Coppola has cited it as an inspiration for THE GODFATHER.
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