[2] Livia Mazzoni, the wife of a senior manager of MinCulPop, departs from Asolo to Venice, where she meets her lover Helmut Schultz, an officer of the SS.

During her car trip, Livia remembers the sexual drift that brought her up to that point, overwhelming her in a whirlwind of erotic adventures, illicit trafficking, shady characters who move in the shadow of the disarraying fascist regime in the final months of World War II.

Tinto Brass said that at first Anna Galiena seemed doubtful about accepting the role, but then she insisted on having the part, and stubbornly asked to audition.

So she went to the director's studio in Isola Farnese where, in order to guarantee the utmost privacy, Brass covered the glass panels of the door with a dark cloth.

[3] Tinto Brass re-adapted the source novella as Senso '45 in 2002 when he read it and found himself unsatisfied with Visconti's rather liberal adaptation.