As Garibaldi’s troops begin the unification of Italy in the 1860s, an aristocratic Sicilian family grudgingly adapts to the sweeping social changes undermining their way of life. Proud but pragmatic Prince Don Fabrizio Salina (Burt Lancaster) allows his war hero nephew, Tancredi (Alain Delon), to marry Angelica (Claudia Cardinale)—the beautiful daughter of gauche, bourgeois Don Calogero—in order to maintain the family’s accustomed level of comfort and political clout.

Winner of the Palme d’Or at the 1963 Cannes Film Festival, Luchino Visconti’s adaptation of Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa’s eponymous novel is one of the great masterpieces of Italian cinema.