Rocco E I Suoi Fratelli -

Visconti, a communist aristocrat, used the film to address —the socio-economic disparity between Italy's agrarian South and industrial North.

The film follows the Parondi family—a widow and her five sons—as they migrate from the impoverished rural south (Basilicata) to the booming industrial north of Milan. Rocco e i suoi fratelli

: The central conflict involves the "saintly" Rocco (Alain Delon) and the brutish Simone (Renato Salvatori), both of whom fall in love with Nadia (Annie Girardot), a prostitute who symbolizes the city's corrupting influence. Visconti, a communist aristocrat, used the film to