Senso

Senso

  • Director: Luchino Visconti
  • Writer: Luchino Visconti,Suso Cecchi D'Amico,Camillo Boito
  • Countries of origin: Italy
  • Language: Italian, German
  • Release date: July 8, 1968
  • Runtime: 2 hours 3 minutes
  • Also known as: The Wanton Contessa
  • Senso is a historical war film directed by Lucino Visconti and starring Alida Valli, La contessa Livia Serpieri, Farley Granger, Il tenente Franz Mahler and was released on December 30, 1954.
    The film tells the story of an Italian noblewoman, Countess Serpieri, in the spring of 1866, who betrayed her marriage and her country, desperately falling in love with Lieutenant Franz Mahler, an Austrian officer.

    Details

    • Release date July 8, 1968
    • Filming locations Rielo di San Daniele, Castello, Venice, Veneto, Italy
    • Production companies Lux Film

    Box office

    Budget

    ITL 700,000,000 (estimated)

    Gross US & Canada

    $27,723

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $3,984

    Gross worldwide

    $27,723

    Movie reviews

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    • By Makenzie 2022-12-29 01:58:53

      Come and see the handsome man of the 50's

      I accidentally saw this film in LeTV. I didn't know the plot director of the original work, so I just watched it casually. Then I found that the Austrian military uniforms are handsome and the people are angry - all of them have been improved. It is suspected that the clothing design in Princess Xixi came from a workshop: add shoulder pads, tighten the waist, and let the male protagonist wear the most unlimited. Wearing trousers with high straps, I was embarrassed to take a closer look at...

    • By Adolfo 2022-12-26 13:12:09

      the director said

      The film is based on the novel of the same name by Camilo Boeto. The original novel was written in the first person, expressing the heroine's inner monologue and repentance in the form of a diary. This was originally a pale love story, but Visconti placed it in the social background of the Italian unification movement with delicate techniques, and enriched and developed the content of the story, making it sublime into a dramatic conflict, A spectacular film reflecting the...

    • By Effie 2022-12-09 11:15:11

      Warring States Enchantress

      The translation of the title is relatively poor. The so-called Warring States period is just the social background of Italy's struggle for independence in the Austro-Prussian War in 1866. The purpose of Luchino Visconti's use of this background is to portray the male protagonist who is a lieutenant because he is afraid of military life and covetousness. He has become a greedy and lecherous person for pleasure, and the so-called demon girl is even more ignorant. Although the female lead is...

    • By Harvey 2022-12-02 19:59:16

      sense of role

      An Austrian, a whistleblower, an officer, a deserter, a coward, a hedonist, a man, a liar, a gambler, a bribe, an aggressor, a whore, a knight in armor.

      He said he was born to be himself;

      He said that only in the mirror, or in the eyes of a woman, could he be sure that he was him.

      He said that mountains and rivers are not used by God to separate people;

      Everything was ridiculous, he said.

      With a smile on his lips, he said that not caring about territorial...

    • By Billie 2022-07-04 23:26:24

      a few words

            Maybe love is not real. It's her fantasy. The Last Fog is a fable, and versions of it have played out everywhere for a long time. Desperate love, because the other person's unscrupulous and never sincere, immediately becomes unreal. It still feels as empty as never loved. This is also a "Medea". It's a pity that mortals can't learn from Medea to become a witch, so the ending is not only a different way for people and ghosts, but also perishing together.
         One of the truths is...

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    • By Gertrude 2023-07-08 00:09:10

      The first film of the festival, Visconti's old film, is as gorgeous as an opera. This type of story is told by various scripts. The "Richard III" I watched the day before yesterday and the drama "Miss Julie" I watched yesterday have the same plot. Women are seduced by the sweet words of men, and only after they fall in love at all will they discover that It's all lies....

    • By Stone 2023-07-02 17:31:34

      In the movie more than 60 years ago, the heroine gave him all the funds of the underground party for the officer, and asked him to pretend to be sick and bribe the doctor to be a deserter, then ran away from home to find him, and found that he lived in a high-end apartment and was drinking and recruiting prostitutes. Heartbroken. The third Visconti film at this film festival is also the first film to be set. Gorgeous costumes, various close-ups, handsome uniforms, and age-oriented...

    • By Enos 2023-06-24 15:16:14

      Visconti's turning point, from the neo-realistic black and white film depicting the bottom in the early stage to the luxurious decadent color film showing the aristocracy in the middle and late stage. 1. The title of the film means "feeling/sensation" in Italian, which fits the irrational nature of war and love, the gorgeous set costumes and the male protagonist's sensitivity to fine sounds and smells. 2. The attention to the Italian War of Independence is like [Leopard], the fall of the...

    • By Trevion 2023-06-21 18:44:40

      [BAMPFA] The romance of the sublime and corrupt is superficial and confusing in both presentation and denial, and the machismo of the characters and creation is undiminished. Even the depiction of the development of love is almost lost, and as a result, the structure is highly unbalanced. The pompous soundtrack is as abrupt as the black screen transitions. The countess and the director could have cared about the real civilian situation, but they only know that they call themselves Venetians...

    • By Aimee 2023-06-14 03:02:37

      Very very very Zweig's...

    Movie plot

    But the latter was just an emotional liar who made fun of the scene, using the excuse of spending money to evade military service and going to the battlefield, deceiving the Countess into misappropriating the revolutionary funds that she kept on her behalf, and spending a lot of money. After discovering the truth, the countess desperately reported the other party's desertion and sent him to the execution ground. And revenge can not...
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    Movie quotes

    • Il tenente Franz Mahler: It's too late! It's over! I'm not your romantic hero!