Together with Roberto Rossellini , Visconti joined the '' salotto '' of Vittorio Mussolini ( the son of Benito , who was then the national arbitrator for cinema and other arts ) . Here he presumably also met Federico Fellini . With Gianni Puccini , Antonio Pietrangeli and Giuseppe De Santis , he wrote the screenplay for his first film as director : '' Ossessione '' ( '' Obsession '' , 1943 ) , the first neorealist movie and an unofficial adaptation of the novel '' The Postman Always Rings Twice '' '' . '' In 1948 , he wrote and directed '' La terra trema '' ( '' The Earth Trembles '' ) , based on the novel '' I Malavoglia '' by Giovanni Verga . Visconti continued working throughout the 1950s , but he veered away from the neorealist path with his 1954 film , '' Senso '' , shot in colour . Based on the novella by Camillo Boito , it is set in Austrian-occupied Venice in 1866 . In this film , Visconti combines realism and romanticism as a way to break away from neorealism . However , as one biographer notes , " Visconti without neorealism is like Lang without expressionism and Eisenstein without formalism " . He describes the film as the " most Viscontian " of all Visconti 's films . Visconti returned to neorealism once more with '' Rocco e i suoi fratelli '' ( '' Rocco and His Brothers '' , 1960 ) , the story of Southern Italians who migrate to Milan hoping to find financial stability . In 1961 , he was a member of the jury at the 2nd Moscow International Film Festival
2nd Moscow International Film Festival
2nd Moscow International Film Festival
Luchino Visconti