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Luchino Visconti
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Director, Screenwriter Born: November 2, 1906 in Milan, Italy Death: March 17, 1976 in Rome, Italy Biography:A director who heralded Italy's celebrated neorealist movement with his first film, Luchino Visconti was preoccupied with the moral disintegration of families. "Ossessione" (1942) was an Italian version of "James M. Cain"'s The Postman Always Rings Twice about a woman who murders her husband. "Bellissima" (1951) examines a stage mother hell-bent on exploiting her daughter. And "Rocco and His Brothers" (1960) chronicles a rural family seeking a better life in the city. Visconti's segment in 1962's "Boccaccio '70" was a study of casual adultery, and his last (and perhaps best) film, "The Innocent" (1976), illustrated the consequences of an aristocrat's having neglected his wife. The upper class and their trials were recurring subjects of Visconti's work; he came from an extremely well-to-do family, and, like many sympathizers with communism, maintained a lavish lifestyle. One of his aristocracy-oriented... Full Biography
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