Senso (film)

Senso
Senso
	Film poster by Renato Fratini
Directed by	Luchino Visconti
Screenplay by	Suso Cecchi d'Amico; Luchino Visconti; Carlo Alianello; Giorgio Bassani; Giorgio Prosperi; Tennessee Williams; Paul Bowles
Based on	Senso ; by Camillo Boito
Produced by	Domenico Forges Davanzati
Starring	Alida Valli; Farley Granger; Massimo Girotti
Cinematography	G.R. Aldo; Robert Krasker
Edited by	Mario Serandrei
Music by	Anton Bruckner; Nino Rota (adaptation)
Distributed by	Lux Film
Release date	30 December 1954;
Running time	117 minutes
Country	Italy
Languages	Italian; German

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). It was Visconti's first color film.

The word senso [ˈsɛn.so] is Italian for "sense," "feeling," or "lust." The title refers to the delight Livia experiences while reflecting on her affair with a handsome lieutenant, in spite of her political convictions.

In 2008, the film was included on the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage’s 100 Italian films to be saved, a list of 100 films that "have changed the collective memory of the country between 1942 and 1978."^[2]

^ Nino Rota filmography: Senso
^ "Ecco i cento film italiani da salvare Corriere della Sera". www.corriere.it. Retrieved 2021-03-11.

[1] Nino Rota filmography: Senso

[2] "Ecco i cento film italiani da salvare Corriere della Sera". www.corriere.it. Retrieved 2021-03-11.

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