Senso (1954)
December 30, 1954Release Date
Plot.
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Farley Granger
Il tenente Franz Mahler
Alida Valli
La contessa Livia Serpieri
Massimo Girotti
Il marchese Roberto Ussoni
Heinz Moog
Il conte Serpieri
Rina Morelli
Laura, la governante
Christian Marquand
Un ufficiale boemo
Sergio Fantoni
Luca
Tino Bianchi
Il capitano Meucci
Giorgio Bassani
Writer
Ernst Nadherny
Il comandante della piazza di Verona
Giorgio Prosperi
Writer
Tonio Selwart
Il colonello Kleist
Marcella Mariani
Clara, la Prostituta
Franco Arcalli
Un Soldato (uncredited)
Luchino Visconti
Director
Aldo Bajocchi
Un Soldato (uncredited)
Suso Cecchi d'Amico
Writer
Ottone Candiani
Un Soldato (uncredited)
Nando Cicero
Un Soldato (uncredited)
Camillo Boito
Writer
Carlo Alianello
Writer
Claudio Coppetti
Un Soldato (uncredited)
Cristoforo De Hartungen
Il Generale Hauptmann (uncredited)
Domenico Forges Davanzati
Producer
G.R. Aldo
Cinematographer
Tony Di Mitri
Un Soldato (uncredited)
Robert Krasker
Cinematographer
Eugenio Incisivo
Un Soldato (uncredited)
Marianne Leibl
La Moglie del Generale Hauptmann (uncredited)
Mario Serandrei
Editor
Ugo Mari
Officer in Verona's Austrian Headquartes (uncredited)
Ottavio Scotti
ProductionDesigner
Jean-Pierre Mocky
Un Soldato (uncredited) / Second Assistant Director
Spartaco Nale
Un Soldato (uncredited)
Ivy Nicholson
Una Patriota (uncredited)
Mimmo Palmara
Un Soldato (uncredited)
Winni Riva
La Cameriera (uncredited)
Carlo Sabatini
Un Soldato (uncredited)
Goliarda Sapienza
Una Patriota al Teatro (uncredited)
Renato Terra
Un Soldato (uncredited)
Gustl Untersulzner
Un Soldato (uncredited)
Mário Valente
Un Soldato (uncredited)
Tennessee Williams
Dialogue
Marcel Escoffier
Costume Design
Giuseppe Rotunno
Camera Operator
Franco Zeffirelli
Assistant Director
Nino Cristiani
Assistant Camera
Alberto De Rossi
Makeup Artist
Piero Tosi
Costume Design
Francesco Izzarelli
Camera Operator
Roberto Palaggi
Production Secretary
Francesco Rosi
Assistant Director
Paul Bowles
Dialogue
Giancarlo Zagni
Second Assistant Director
Franco Ferrara
Conductor
Marcello Giannini
Production Supervisor
Media.
Details.
Release DateDecember 30, 1954
StatusReleased
Running Time2h 3m
Filming LocationsVenice, Italy
Genres
Wiki.
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."