along and leaves to turn Simone in to the police. The youngest brother, Luca, does little but watch quietly in the background most of the time. By the end of the film he wants to return with Rocco to the south, despite spending the least time in southern Italy before the family moved to Milan. In one of the last scenes Ciro speaks to Luca outside his factory and tells him that Rocco won't return there, though he might, but will not find the south the same under the pressure of inevitable progress, and, though many people fear a changing world, he does not and believes that Luca will benefit from the changes. Cast Alain Delon as Rocco Parondi Annie Girardot as Nadia Renato Salvatori as Simone Parondi Katina Paxinou as Rosaria Parondi Roger Hanin as Duilio Morini Spiros Focás as Vincenzo Parondi Claudia Cardinale as Ginetta, Vincenzo's fiancée Paolo Stoppa as Tonino Cerri as Ciro Parondi Rocco Vidolazzi as Luca Parondi Alessandra Panaro as Franca, Ciro's fiancée Suzy Delair as Luisa Claudia Mori as Raffaella Adriana Asti as Giannina Nino Castelnuovo as Nino Rossi Corrado Pani as Ivo Renato Terra as Alfredo, Ginetta's brother as Renzo Enzo Fiermonte as a boxer Production Rocco and His Brothers was filmed in Milan during the Spring of 1960. Locations included Piazza del Duomo, the Milan Cathedral, and the Milano Centrale railway station. Other scenes were shot in Rome, Bellagio, and Civitavecchia. Renato Salvatori (Simone) and Annie Girardot (Nadia) romantically eloped during filming, and married two years later. The production was beset by multiple setbacks. Luchino Visconti was denied multiple filming permits to locations that had been previously approved, and production was shut down on the orders after provincial premier Adrio Casati learned that the climactic murder scene would be filmed in a large recreational area in Idroscalo. Casati claimed it was due to an "inopportune resemblance to reality" of the scene to be shot to the recent murder of a young prostitute in the area. Visconti was forced to move shooting to Lazio, with the scene instead filmed at Lago di Fondi. During post-production, Visconti re-dubbed and re-edited the film to change the characters' names from "Pafundi" to "Parondi." A local judge with the same name had threatened to sue the producers, under the mistaken belief that the film was about him. Reception Box office The film was the 27th most popular