Rocco and His Brothers (Rocco e i suoi fratelli)Visconti's sordidly operatic tale of a young flyweight boxer (an indelible Alain Delon) and his journey from the poverty of the Italian south to the cold lights of Milan, was a significant influence on Italian-American filmmakers such as Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola.
An immense film, it is structured like a novel, spanning four chapters and echoing the literary classics of Dostoevsky's The Idiot, Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge and Thomas Mann's Joseph and His Brothers.
