Directed by:
Luchino ViscontiCinematography:
Pasqualino De SantisCast:
Dirk Bogarde, Romolo Valli, Mark Burns, Nora Ricci, Marisa Berenson, Carole André, Björn Andrésen, Silvana Mangano, Franco Fabrizi, Marco Tulli, Nicoletta Elmi (more)VOD (2)
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Based on the classic novella by Thomas Mann, this late-career masterpiece from Luchino Visconti is a meditation on the nature of art, the allure of beauty, and the inescapability of death. A fastidious composer reeling from a disastrous concert, Gustav von Aschenbach (Dirk Bogarde, in an exquisitely nuanced performance) travels to Venice to recover. There, he is struck by a vision of pure beauty in the form of a young boy (Björn Andrésen), his infatuation developing into an obsession even as rumors of a plague spread through the city. Setting Mann’s story of queer desire and bodily decay against the sublime music of Gustav Mahler, Death in Venice is one of cinema’s most exalted literary adaptations, as sensually rich as it is allegorically resonant. (Criterion)
(more)Cast
Dirk Bogarde
UK
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Romolo Valli
Italy
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Mark Burns
UK
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Nora Ricci
Italy
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Marisa Berenson
USA
Best movies:
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Carole André
France
Best movies:
Death in Venice (1971)
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Face to Face (1967)
Björn Andrésen
Sweden
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Death in Venice (1971)
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Silvana Mangano
Italy
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Franco Fabrizi
Italy
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Marco Tulli
Italy
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Nicoletta Elmi
Italy
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Death in Venice (1971)
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Mirella Pamphili
Italy
Best movies:
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Death in Venice (1971)
Leslie French
UK
Best movies:
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Death in Venice (1971)