Senso

Senso is a Italian film of Luchino Visconti left in 1954, drawn from the short account of Camillo Boito (1883).

Synopsis

In 1886, with Venice, the last days of the Austrian occupation, a countess (L. Serpieri) becomes the mistress of an Austrian officer (F. Mahler). It finds it in full battle carried out against the Italians, pays to make it reform. It gives up it. She then denounces it like deserter and he is shot.

Comment

One of most beautiful Italian films, opening by a homage to Giuseppe Verdi whose opera the Trouvere, determines the manifestations of the Italians against the Austrians. L. Visconti gives to it initially a cruel portrait of a corrupted and declining aristocracy: its Austrian officer is wretched and his pitiful countess. But it is especially a question of showing people fighting for his national release.

Data sheet

Title: Senso
Realizer: Luchino Visconti
Scenario: Suso Cecchi D' Amico, Giorgio Prosperi, Giorgio Bassani, Carlo Alianello, Tennessee Williams, Paul Bowles, L. Visconti.
Music: Director Bruckner
of the photography: Aldo Graziati
Decorations: Ottavio Scotti
Left: 1954
Kind: historical drama
Lasted: 115 minutes

Distribution

Alidi Valli : The countess Livia Serpieri
Farley Granger: Franz Mahler
Massimo Girotti: Roberto Custom
Rina Morelli: Lora, controlling it
Heinz Moog: The count Serpieri
Christian Marquand: An officer
Sergio Fontani: Luca
Tino Bianchi : The captain Meucci
Ernst Nadherny: The commander of the place of Vérone

External bonds

Internet Movie Database

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