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''Rocco and His Brothers'' is a 1960 film directed by Creator/LuchinoVisconti, starring Creator/AlainDelon.
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* BreakoutRole: For Creator/AlainDelon, Annie Girardot, and Creator/ClaudiaCardinale. Delon's ''Film/PurpleNoon'' had only come out a few months earlier, Giradot was better known as an up-and-coming stage actress, and Cardinale appeared in a few bit parts and supporting role the year prior. All three would become some of the biggest actors in their respective countries.
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* BreakoutRole: For Creator/AlainDelon, Annie Girardot, and Creator/ClaudiaCardinale. Delon's ''Film/PurpleNoon'' had only come out a few months earlier, Giradot was better known as an up-and-coming stage actress, and Cardinale appeared in a few bit parts and supporting role the year prior. All three would become became some of the biggest actors in their respective countries.
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* [[PlayingGertrude Playing Hamnlet]]: The eldest brother Vincenzo is played by Spiros Focas, who is younger than the actors playing his younger brothers. Focas was 23 at the time, whereas Creator/AlainDelon (Rocco) was 25 and Renato Salvatori was 27.
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* BreakoutRole: For Creator/AlainDelon, Annie Girardot, and Creator/ClaudiaCardinale. Delon's ''Film/PurpleNoon'' had only come out a few months earlier, Giradot was better known as an up-and-coming stage actress, and Cardinale appeared in a few bit parts and supporting role the year prior. All three would become some of the biggest actors in their respective countries.
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* ClumsyCopyrightCensorship: In the original script, the titular family was named the Pafundis. A prominent Judge with the same last name objected and threatened to block the film's release, so dialogue had to be [[SameLanguageDub re-dubbed]] and props altered via VFX to change the name to "Parondi".
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* [[PlayingGertrude Playing Hamnlet]]: The eldest brother Vincenzo is played by Spiros Focas, who is younger than the actors playing his younger brothers. Focas was 23 at the time, whereas Creator/AlainDelon (Rocco) was 25 and Renato Salvatori was 27.
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* CrucifiedHeroShot: [[spoiler:Nadia's]] arms are outstretched when [[spoiler:Simone murders her]].
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* MessianicArchetype: Rocco sacrifices all he has to save his brother. Simone slowly becomes a criminal. He [[spoiler:rapes Nadia]] and he beats the crap out of Rocco. In the end, he even [[spoiler:murders Nadia]]. However, Rocco always wants to help him. After [[spoiler:the rape]], he gives up Nadia's love. Then, he signs a long-term boxing contract to pay Simone's debts. After [[spoiler:the murder of the woman he loved]], he still wants to save his brother.
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* JadedWashout: Simone becomes a successful boxer, but he does not work hard enough, so his career soon founders and he becomes a jobless alcoholic.
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* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: After [[spoiler:raping Nadia]], Simone beats the crap out of Rocco.
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* AFriendInNeed: Rocco keeps on helping his brother Simone. He covers up the theft of a jewel. After [[spoiler:Simone rapes Nadia]], he breaks up with Nadia and tells her to make up with Simone. After Simone robs Morini, Rocco signs a long-term contract in order to get enough money to pay Morini back. Even after [[spoiler:Simone murders Nadia]], Rocco still wants to cover up his crime.
* HeroicSacrifice: After [[spoiler:Simone rapes Nadia, the woman he loved]], Rocco breaks up with Nadia and tells her to make up with Simone. After Simone robs Morini, Rocco signs a long-term contract in order to get enough money to pay Morini back (so he will have to keep on boxing for years, even if he does not like it).
* HeroicSacrifice: After [[spoiler:Simone rapes Nadia, the woman he loved]], Rocco breaks up with Nadia and tells her to make up with Simone. After Simone robs Morini, Rocco signs a long-term contract in order to get enough money to pay Morini back (so he will have to keep on boxing for years, even if he does not like it).
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* OnscreenChapterTitles: The film is divided into five chapters, named after the five Parondi brothers: Vincenzo, Simone, Rocco, Ciro and Luca.
* RapeAsDrama: [[spoiler:Simone]] rapes [[spoiler:Nadia]] and, from this point, things go from bad to worse for Nadia and the Parondis.
* RapeAsDrama: [[spoiler:Simone]] rapes [[spoiler:Nadia]] and, from this point, things go from bad to worse for Nadia and the Parondis.
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* DisposableSexWorker: [[spoiler:Nadia]] is a prostitute and she is murdered by [[spoiler:Simone]] in a deserted place where she met her customers. {{Deconstructed|Trope}}, because she is an important character and her death is important for the protagonists. Rocco, in particular, is devastated when he hears of her death.
* DrowningMySorrows: After his boxing career foundered and Nadia left him, Simone becomes an alcoholic.
* DrowningMySorrows: After his boxing career foundered and Nadia left him, Simone becomes an alcoholic.
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Simone is foolish: he has the opportunity to pursue a boxing career, but he does not work hard enough. He is distracted by his love affair with Nadia. His brothers are responsible: Vincenzo is determined to integrate into Milan and to support his family. Rocco works hard to succeed as a boxer, even if he does not like boxing. Ciro attends evening classes to become a skilled worker.
* AnImmigrantsTale: Within the same country. The Parondis come from Lucania, in Southern Italy, and they migrate to Milan. They have to cope with life in a big city.
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* MatchCut: From Rocco fighting (and losing) in the boxing ring to Simone assaulting Nadia. Even comes with Rocco's boxing coach telling him to "cover up" his face, followed by Simone telling Nadia to "cover up" with a coat after he's pulled her dress off.
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* MatchCut: From Rocco fighting (and losing) in the boxing ring to Simone assaulting Nadia. Even comes with Rocco's boxing coach telling him to "cover up" his face, followed by Simone telling Nadia to "cover up" with a coat after he's pulled her dress off.
* SiblingTriangle: Rocco and his brother Simone are both in love with Nadia.
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* SpiritualSuccessor: Visconti admitted that ''Rocco'' is a sequel-in-spirit of ''La terra trema'', his drama about a family of Sicilian fisherman crushed by Northern businesses encroaching on their way of life. This film shows the family going North and trying, and failing, to assimilate.
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* SpiritualSuccessor: Visconti admitted that ''Rocco'' is a sequel-in-spirit of ''La terra trema'', ''Film/LaTerraTrema'', his drama about a family of Sicilian fisherman crushed by Northern businesses encroaching on their way of life. This film shows the family going North and trying, and failing, to assimilate.
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* EasilyForgiven: Simone. Rocco puts up with a lot of degradation and abuse and keeps pardoning his brother for stuff that he really shouldn't condone, such as raping Nadia, and then telling her to go back and live with her rapist because he feels that it was wrong of him to "steal" his brother's girl. At the end, after finding out that Simone killed Nadia, Rocco ''still'' wants to help him. Only Ciro has the moral courage to turn Simone in for murder.
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* InsaneForgiveness: Rocco puts up with a lot of degradation and abuse and keeps pardoning his brother for stuff that he really shouldn't condone, such as raping Nadia, and then telling her to go back and live with her rapist because he feels that it was wrong of him to "steal" his brother's girl. At the end, after finding out that Simone killed Nadia, Rocco ''still'' wants to help him. Only Ciro has the moral courage to turn Simone in for murder.
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* SpiritualSuccessor: Visconti admitted that ''Rocco'' is a sequel-in-spirit of ''La terra trema'', his drama about a family of Sicilian fisherman crushed by Northern businesses encroaching on their way of life. This film shows the family going North and trying, and failing, to assimilate.
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* OffIntoTheDistanceEnding: Ends with Luca walking away from the Alfa Romeo factory, after telling Ciro to come home.
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* InsaneForgiveness: Rocco puts up with a lot of degradation and abuse and keeps pardoning his brother for stuff that he really shouldn't condone, such as raping Nadia, and then telling her to go back and live with her rapist because he feels that it was wrong of him to "steal" his brother's girl. At the end, after finding out that Simone killed Nadia, Rocco ''still'' wants to help him. Only Ciro has the moral courage to turn Simone in for murder.
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* BigNo: Rocco lets loose with a "NO!!!!" scream after Simone admits to murdering Nadia.
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* ItsAllAboutMe: After telling Rocco that he murdered the woman Rocco loved, Simone says "But don't you worry, no one saw me."
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* FaceDeathWithDignity: In the scene in the finale, where Simone approaches Nadia with a knife, the latter stretches her arms in an embrace, as if aware that she is going to die.
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* DirtyCoward: The anonymous john who runs away as Simone assaults Nadia.
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* MatchCut: From Rocco fighting (and losing) in the boxing ring to Simone assaulting Nadia. Even comes with Rocco's boxing coach telling him to "cover up" his face, followed by Simone telling Nadia to "cover up" with a coat after he's pulled her dress off.
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The Parondi family consists of matriarch Rosaria and five sons: Rocco (Delon), Vincenzo, Simone (that's Italian, pronounced see-MO-nay), Simone, Ciro, and Luca. At the start of the film the rest of the family is leaving impoverished UsefulNotes/{{Sicily}} to join Vincenzo, who is already in Milan, and has gotten engaged to the lovely Ginetta.
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* VoiceoverLetter: The "Rocco" section of the movie starts with Rocco getting a Voiceover Letter from his mom in which she catches him up on events while he's been away in the army.
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* CainAndAbel: The dynamic between Rocco and Simone. Simone is offended at Rocco's moral quality and keeps doing stuff to tempt his brother to degrade him [[spoiler:up to murdering Nadia. Ciro, the younger brother is the one who takes responsibility and turns Simone into the police for his crime]].
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* CainAndAbel: The dynamic between Rocco and Simone. Simone is offended at Rocco's moral quality and keeps doing stuff to tempt his brother to degrade him [[spoiler:up up to murdering Nadia. Ciro, the younger brother is the one who takes responsibility and turns Simone into the police for his crime]].crime.
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* FaceDeathWithDignity: In the scene in the finale, [[spoiler:where Simone approaches Nadia with a knife, the latter stretches her arms in an embrace, as if aware that she is going to die]].
* InsaneForgiveness: Rocco puts up with a lot of degradation and abuse and keeps pardoning his brother for stuff that he really shouldn't condone, [[spoiler:such as raping Nadia, and then telling her to go back and live with her rapist because he feels that it was wrong of him to "steal" his brother's girl]].
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* FaceDeathWithDignity: In the scene in the finale, [[spoiler:where where Simone approaches Nadia with a knife, the latter stretches her arms in an embrace, as if aware that she is going to die]].
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* TheOneWhoMadeItOut: There is tension in the family between Vincenzo who first married a non-Sicilian and attempts to assimilate into Northern Italy and the rest who are traditionalists. In the end [[spoiler:Ciro, and little Luca, decides to follow in Vincenzo's footsteps and avoid the fate of Rocco and Simone]].
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* TheOneWhoMadeItOut: There is tension in the family between Vincenzo who first married a non-Sicilian and attempts to assimilate into Northern Italy and the rest who are traditionalists. In the end [[spoiler:Ciro, Ciro, and little Luca, decides to follow in Vincenzo's footsteps and avoid the fate of Rocco and Simone]].Simone.
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* StuffedIntoTheFridge: [[spoiler:Nadia gets raped, abused, and finally killed, mostly to provide dramatic tension between Rocco and Simone]].
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* SlapSlapKiss: The middle-aged owner of the laundry where Rocco works is enraged when Simone comes in, admits to stealing one of her shirts, and then asks to get it washed. She slaps him. Then they have a passionate embrace, followed by a SexyDiscretionShot.
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The Parondi family consists of matriarch Rosaria and five sons: Rocco (Delon), Vincenzo, Simone (that's Italian, pronounced see-MO-nay), Ciro, and Luca. At the start of the film the rest of the family is leaving impoverished Sicily UsefulNotes/{{Sicily}} to join Vincenzo, who is already in Milan, and has gotten engaged to the lovely Ginetta.
* CainAndAbel: The dynamic between Rocco and Simone. Simone is offended at Rocco's moral quality and keeps doing stuff to tempt his brother to degrade him [[spoiler:up to murdering Nadia. Ciro, the younger brother is the one who takes responsibility and turns Simone into the police for his crime]].
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* KitchenSinkDrama: A poor family fight to survive and stay together in an uncaring big city.
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* FaceDeathWithDignity: In the scene in the finale, [[spoiler:where Simone approaches Nadia with a knife, the latter stretches her arms in an embrace, as if aware that she is going to die]].
* InsaneForgiveness: Rocco puts up with a lot of degradation and abuse and keeps pardoning his brother for stuff that he really shouldn't condone, [[spoiler:such as raping Nadia, and then telling her to go back and live with her rapist because he feels that it was wrong of him to "steal" his brother's girl]].
* LiteraryAllusionTitle: The title alludes to Thomas Mann's ''Joseph and His Brothers''.
* KitchenSinkDrama: A poor family fight to survive and stay together in an uncaring bigcity.city.
* TheOneWhoMadeItOut: There is tension in the family between Vincenzo who first married a non-Sicilian and attempts to assimilate into Northern Italy and the rest who are traditionalists. In the end [[spoiler:Ciro, and little Luca, decides to follow in Vincenzo's footsteps and avoid the fate of Rocco and Simone]].
* RealPlaceBackground: The film is shot on location in Milan, a city in which Visconti's aristocratic ancestors had much influence over the decades. Notably the scene where Vincenzo and Nadia are walking around Milan features a prominent church in the background, this church was indeed patronized and built by Visconti's ancestors.
* StuffedIntoTheFridge: [[spoiler:Nadia gets raped, abused, and finally killed, mostly to provide dramatic tension between Rocco and Simone]].
* SupportingProtagonist: Despite being in the title, Rocco is a passive figure to the family, and the real dramatic and dynamic characters are Simone and Nadia.
* WholePlotReference: The love-triangle between Rocco-Simone-Nadia was inspired by Creator/FyodorDostoevsky's ''Literature/TheIdiot'' with Rocco as a Myshkin-like good-guy, Simone as Rogozhin, and Nadia based on Nastasya.
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* InsaneForgiveness: Rocco puts up with a lot of degradation and abuse and keeps pardoning his brother for stuff that he really shouldn't condone, [[spoiler:such as raping Nadia, and then telling her to go back and live with her rapist because he feels that it was wrong of him to "steal" his brother's girl]].
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* KitchenSinkDrama: A poor family fight to survive and stay together in an uncaring big
* TheOneWhoMadeItOut: There is tension in the family between Vincenzo who first married a non-Sicilian and attempts to assimilate into Northern Italy and the rest who are traditionalists. In the end [[spoiler:Ciro, and little Luca, decides to follow in Vincenzo's footsteps and avoid the fate of Rocco and Simone]].
* RealPlaceBackground: The film is shot on location in Milan, a city in which Visconti's aristocratic ancestors had much influence over the decades. Notably the scene where Vincenzo and Nadia are walking around Milan features a prominent church in the background, this church was indeed patronized and built by Visconti's ancestors.
* StuffedIntoTheFridge: [[spoiler:Nadia gets raped, abused, and finally killed, mostly to provide dramatic tension between Rocco and Simone]].
* SupportingProtagonist: Despite being in the title, Rocco is a passive figure to the family, and the real dramatic and dynamic characters are Simone and Nadia.
* WholePlotReference: The love-triangle between Rocco-Simone-Nadia was inspired by Creator/FyodorDostoevsky's ''Literature/TheIdiot'' with Rocco as a Myshkin-like good-guy, Simone as Rogozhin, and Nadia based on Nastasya.
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''Rocco and His Brothers'' is a 1960 Italian film directed by Creator/LuchinoVisconti, starring Creator/AlainDelon.
The Parondi family consists of matriarch Rosaria and five sons: Rocco (Delon), Vincenzo, Simone (that's Italian, pronounced see-MO-nay), Ciro, and Luca. At the start of the film the rest of the family is leaving impoverished Sicily to join Vincenzo, who is already in Milan, and has gotten engaged to the lovely Ginetta.
Rosaria had imagined that she and her sons would move in with Vincenzo, and is unpleasantly surprised to find that Vincenzo is living with Ginetta's family and there is no room for them. She and her other four sons get a shabby basement room, and the men look for work. Into their lives comes Nadia, a prostitute who seeks shelter with the Parondis after her father throws her out. Simone falls head over heels for her. The pressure of struggling to survive in the big city, as well as Simone's mad passion for Nadia, threatens to tear the family apart.
Creator/ClaudiaCardinale, then just on the cusp of international superstardom, plays Ginetta.
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* {{Chiaroscuro}}: Lots of this, like in the moodily lit, shadowy scene where the boxing promoter walks through a dim hallway to meet the brothers, and offer Simone boxing work. This is likely to foreshadow that going into boxing is a bad idea for Simone.
* CountryMouse: The Parondis, dirt poor country folk from Sicily, struggle to make it in Milan.
* KitchenSinkDrama: A poor family fight to survive and stay together in an uncaring big city.
The Parondi family consists of matriarch Rosaria and five sons: Rocco (Delon), Vincenzo, Simone (that's Italian, pronounced see-MO-nay), Ciro, and Luca. At the start of the film the rest of the family is leaving impoverished Sicily to join Vincenzo, who is already in Milan, and has gotten engaged to the lovely Ginetta.
Rosaria had imagined that she and her sons would move in with Vincenzo, and is unpleasantly surprised to find that Vincenzo is living with Ginetta's family and there is no room for them. She and her other four sons get a shabby basement room, and the men look for work. Into their lives comes Nadia, a prostitute who seeks shelter with the Parondis after her father throws her out. Simone falls head over heels for her. The pressure of struggling to survive in the big city, as well as Simone's mad passion for Nadia, threatens to tear the family apart.
Creator/ClaudiaCardinale, then just on the cusp of international superstardom, plays Ginetta.
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!!Tropes:
* {{Chiaroscuro}}: Lots of this, like in the moodily lit, shadowy scene where the boxing promoter walks through a dim hallway to meet the brothers, and offer Simone boxing work. This is likely to foreshadow that going into boxing is a bad idea for Simone.
* CountryMouse: The Parondis, dirt poor country folk from Sicily, struggle to make it in Milan.
* KitchenSinkDrama: A poor family fight to survive and stay together in an uncaring big city.
