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Senso
Luchino Visconti
(1954)
116min
A Certificate
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Review
Our Score
by
Adrian Turner
A full-blown melodrama from Luchino Visconti about an Italian countess, trapped in a sexless marriage, falling in love with a dashing Austrian cavalry officer who is invading Italy. As usual with Visconti, there is a welter of baroque effects and an acute sense of history, as the countess betrays her country and her social class for the sake of passion. Visconti wanted Ingrid Bergman for the countess but Roberto Rossellini put his foot down and said she only worked for him. So Visconti went with Italian Alida Valli, from
The Third Man
, and he cast Farley Granger, from
Strangers on a Train
, as her lover. The decadent setting is Venice.
Cast & Crew
Contessa Livia Serpieri
Alida Valli
Lieut Franz Mahler
Farley Granger
Marquis Roberto Ussoni
Massimo Girotti
Count Serpieri
Heinz Moog
Laura
Rina Morelli
Director
Luchino Visconti
see more
Other Information
Language:
Italian dubbed
Colour
Theatrical distributor:
Premier Releasing
Available on:
video and DVD
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