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Luchino Visconti

Morte a Venezia (Death in Venice)

Director Luchino Visconti Cast Dirk Bogarde, Björn Andrésen, Silvana Mangano, Romolo Valli, Mark Burns
130' - 1971 - Drama, Romance - 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

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Dialogue

German, Russian, Italian, Polish, French, English

Countries of production

Italy, France

Screenplay based on

''Der Tod in Venedig'', (Thomas Mann)

Year

1971