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Senso is a 1954 Italian historical melodrama film directed and co-written by Luchino Visconti, based on Camillo Boito's novella of the same name. Set during the Third Italian War of Independence, the film follows the Italian Contessa Livia Serpieri (Alida Valli), who has an affair with the Austrian Lieutenant Franz Mahler (Farley Granger).
Senso: Directed by Luchino Visconti. With Farley Granger, Alida Valli, Massimo Girotti, Heinz Moog. An Italian Countess is allied with Nationalists during the Italian-Austrian war of unification. However, she risks betraying their cause when she falls in love with an Austrian lieutenant.
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- Drama, Romance, War
- Luchino Visconti
- 1968-07-08
Feb 21, 2011 · A passionate and melodramatic romance set in Venice during the Risorgimento, with a countess who betrays her husband and country for an Austrian officer. Roger Ebert praises the film's atmosphere, casting and themes, but criticizes its lack of sympathy for the characters.
Senso. This lush, Technicolor tragic romance from Luchino Visconti stars Alida Valli as a nineteenth-century Italian countess who, during the Austrian occupation of her country, puts her marriage and political principles on the line by engaging in a torrid affair with a dashing Austrian lieutenant, played by Farley Granger.
- Countess Livia Serpieri
Dec 1, 2010 · Luchino Viscontiâs 1954 film about the affair between an Italian countess (Alida Valli) with partisan sympathies and an Austrian officer from the occupying army (Farley Granger), set during Garibaldiâs war of independence in the 1860s, is one of the most extraordinary historical films ever made. *************.
SENSO (1954) - The Criterion Collection. Out on Blu-ray and DVD on February 22, 2011! Learn more: http://www.criterion.com/films/27543-sensoThis lush, Technicolor tragic romance...
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Feb 6, 2020 · Senso – 1954 Visconti. A magnificent painterly work from Visconti—his first film in color and his fourth feature overall. Unlike Ossessione and La Terra Trema this is a 180-turn away from neorealism in a lot of ways (professional actors, color, expensive upper class).
