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A new 4K restoration of Luchino Visconti's Rocco and His Brothers (1960), starring Alain Delon, Annie Girardot, and Claudia Cardinale, will be having its North American DVD and Blu-ray premiere this July 10 from Milestone Films! With an operatic Nino Rota score and Giuseppe Rotunno's (The Leopard, 81⁄2, Amarcord, All That Jazz, etc.), glimmering, on-location cinematography, Rocco and His Brothers "represents the artistic apotheosis of Italian neorealism," says A.O. Scott of The New York Times. Joining the tragic exodus of millions from Italy's impoverished south, the formidable matriarch of the Parondi clan (Katina Paxinou, Best Supporting Oscar winner, For Whom the Bell Tolls) and her five children emerge from Milan's looming Stazione Centrale in search of a better life in the industrial north. But, as they inch up the social ladder, family bonds are ruthlessly shredded. Simone and Rocco find fame, in the boxing ring, and love, in the same woman--Nadia (the incredible debut of Annie Girardot). Jealousy mounts, blood is shed, and a striving family faces self-destruction in this incisive, sensuous, emotionally bruising masterwork from director Luchino Visconti (The Leopard, Senso). Drawing from Dostoevsky and Thomas Mann, Visconti arranges his signature themes--modernity, class tension, familial discord--across an epic canvas that directly influenced later Italian-American sagas by Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorsese. Luchino Visconti's personal favorite of his own films, the film established him as one of the great directors of his era. Alain Delon, Annie Girardot, Renato Salvatori, and Claudia Cardinale lead the cast of gorgeous unknowns who leapt to stardom in the wake of this film's bow at the 1960 Venice Film Festival, where it was greeted with scandal and won the Special Jury Prize.