Director
Luchino Visconti
Cast
Dirk Bogarde, Björn Andrésen, Silvana Mangano, Romolo Valli, Mark Burns
Edition 1993
130'
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1971
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Drama, Romance
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Dialogue:
German, Russian, Italian, Polish, French, English
Von Aschenbach, an aging and celebrated composer in poor health and suffering a crisis of his creative powers, visits Venice. There he becomes possessed by the beauty of a young Polish boy, to whom he never speaks but who appears to embody his ideals of physical beauty and spiritual purity. He remains in Venice, in spite of a cholera epidemic, until ill health and his obsession combine to kill him. Visconti's transposition of Mann's novel is intelligent and sensitive, and evokes fin-de-siècle Venice to breathtaking perfection.
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Credits
Directors
Luchino Visconti
Cast
Dirk Bogarde, Björn Andrésen, Silvana Mangano, Romolo Valli, Mark Burns
Scenario
Luchino Visconti, Nicola Badalucco
Producers
Mario Gallo, Luchino Visconti
More info
Dialogue
German, Russian, Italian, Polish, French, English
Countries of production
Italy, France
Screenplay based on
''Der Tod in Venedig'', (Thomas Mann)
Year
1971