Italian director Luchino Visconti dishes up his usual blend of elegance and decadence in Senso. The international cast includes French film star Alida Valli as a Italian countess married to a Venetian nobleman, and English leading man Farley Granger as an Austrian military officer. The two are swept up in the Austrian empire's evacuation of Italy in 1866. Valli and Granger fall in love, but Valli ultimately realizes that the officer is interested only in her wealth and prestige, whereupon she gives him over to a firing squad. Visconti had wanted Ingrid Bergman and Marlon Brando for his leads, but when Bergman's husband Roberto Rossellini would not permit her to appear in the film, Brando also bowed out. Originally running 166 minutes, Senso was released in a radically cut version in the US in 1968, titled Summer Hurricane; yet another recut version popped up in England as The Wanton Contessa.- Hal Erickson, Rovi.
Alida Valli | La contessa Livia Serpieri |
Farley Granger | Il tenente Franz Mahler |
Heinz Moog | Il conte Serpieri |
Rina Morelli | Laura, la governante |
Christian Marquand | Un ufficiale boemo |
Sergio Fantoni | Luca |
Tino Bianchi | Il capitano Meucci |
Ernst Nadherny | Il comandante della piazza di Verona |
Tonio Selwart | Il colonello Kleist |
Marcella Mariani | Clara, la prostituta |
Massimo Girotti | Il marchese Roberto Ussoni |
Gustl Untersulzner | Un soldato |
Franco Arcalli | Un soldato (uncredited) |
Luchino Visconti | Story |
Suso Cecchi d'Amico | Story |
Aldo Bajocchi | Un soldato (uncredited) |
Ottone Candiani | Un soldato (uncredited) |
Anita Cerquetti | Leonora (from opera "Il Trovatore") |
Nando Cicero | Un soldato (uncredited) |
Claudio Coppetti | Un soldato (uncredited) |
Cristoforo De Hartungen | Il generale Hauptmann (uncredited) |
Tony Di Mitri | Un soldato (uncredited) |
Eugenio Incisivo | Un soldato (uncredited) |
Marianne Leibl | La moglie del generale Hauptmann (uncredited) |
Jean-Pierre Mocky | Un soldato (uncredited) |
Spartaco Nale | Un soldato (uncredited) |
Ivy Nicholson | Una patriota (uncredited) |
Mimmo Palmara | Un soldato (uncredited) |
Gino Penno | Manrico (from opera "Il Trovatore") |
Winni Riva | La cameriera (uncredited) |
Goliarda Sapienza | Una patriota al teatro (uncredited) |
Renato Terra | Un soldato (uncredited) |
Mario Valente | Un soldato (uncredited) |
Aldo Graziati | Cinematographer |
Mario Serandrei | Film Editor |
Aldo Calpini | Sound Department |
Vittorio Trentino | Sound Department |
G.R. Aldo | Cinematographer |
Robert Krasker | Cinematographer |
Ottavio Scotti | Production Designer |
Domenico Forges Davanzati | Production Supervisor |
Gino Brosio | Set Decorator |
Olga Asta | assistant production manager |
Marcel Escoffier | Custome Designer |
Piero Tosi | Custome Designer |
Marcello Giannini | Production Supervisor |
Gina Guglielmotti | assistant production manager |
Alberto De Rossi | Makeup Artist |
Gabriele Silvestri | Production Supervisor |
Francesco Rosi | Assistant Director |
Aldo Trionfo | Associate Director |
Giancarlo Zagni | Associate Director |
Franco Zeffirelli | Assistant Director |
Nino Cristiani | assistant camera |
Francesco Izzarelli | Camera Operator |
Giuseppe Rotunno | Camera Operator |