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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.
- (7.6K)
- Drama, Romance, War
- Luchino Visconti
- 1968-07-08
Visconti's "Senso" (1954) opens in an opera house and in a way never leaves it. This is a passionate and melodramatic romance, with doomed lovers, posturing soldiers, secret meetings at midnight , bold adultery and dramatic deaths.
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
A wanton contessa (Alida Valli) loves and betrays an unscrupulous Austrian officer (Farley Granger) in 1860s Venice.
- (24)
- Alida Valli
- Luchino Visconti
- Lux Film
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...
- 2 min
- 42.8K
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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.
