Luchino Visconti's epic saga of Sicilian fishermen remains one of the most important films of Italian neo-realism. Shot entirely on location in Sicily, with the non-actors speaking their own dialect, and hailed as a revelation at the Venice Film Festival, it is a film with "a powerful sense of realism and sense of lyrical grandeur, almost a kind of operatic cinema verite" (Georges Sadoul). In Italian with English subtitles.

Luchino Visconti---Italy---1948---160 mins.

• E1
• Release Date: 03/13/2012