Viscansti's sensual epic about a diabolical marriage.

Luchino Visconti's Epic Final FilmBased on a novel by Gabriele d'Annunzio, The Innocent (L'Innocente) is set amongst the aristocracy of 19th-century Italy. Wealthy Tullio (Giancarlo Giannini) thinks nothing of squiring his mistress (Jennifer O'Neill) in full view of his friends and the public. But when Giannini's cast-off wife (Laura Antonelli) begins an affair with a young novelist (based, it is said, on author d'Annunzio), it is too much for the philandering aristocrat. Outside of Erich von Stroheim, few directors were as masterful at combining lavishness with depravity as Luchino Visconti. The Innocent turned out to be Visconti's last film; he died in 1976, shortly before the picture's premiere.

ullio Hermil (Giancarlo Giannini) is a wealthy Roman married to Giuliana (Laura Antonelli) but lives a double sexual life with a possessive and aristocratic mistress (Jennifer O'Neill). However, his interest in his wife Guliana is rekindled when he sees Guliana being really happy after she has begun a love affair too. Guliana's lover Filippo d'Aborio dies while she's pregnant with his child. Tullio tries to reconnect with Guliana but he cannot cope with knowing that her child is from another man. So he decides to kill the child.

Release Date: January 16, 1979

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