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Viscontis Senso
Brucknerfest Linz 2026. Film classics at Moviemento. Luchino Visconti's first color film Senso from 1954 featuring Anton Bruckner's 7th Symphony as the film score. The tragedy Senso – Luchino Visconti's first color film from 1954 – is both a love story and political thriller: the plot is set in Venice, which is occupied by Austrian troops shortly before the outbreak of the third Italian War of Independence in 1866. Countess Livia Serpieri feels trapped in her loveless marriage to an aging aristocrat and throws herself headlong into an affair with the Austrian officer Franz Mahler. Soon she is completely captivated by the gambling-addicted ladies' man. For him, she betrays her political ideals, her countrymen, and her own family, while Franz only brings her humiliation. Finally, love turns to rage... with terrible consequences. As in Death in Venice, Visconti also uses late Romantic symphony in Senso to intensify the film's dramatic impact. Here it is Anton Bruckner's 7th Symphony – arranged by renowned Italian film composer Nino Rota – accompanying the emotional highs and lows of the two main characters.
