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Death in Venice ( Italian: Morte a Venezia) is a 1971 historical drama film directed and produced by Italian filmmaker Luchino Visconti, and adapted by Visconti and Nicola Badalucco from the 1912 novella of the same name by German author Thomas Mann.
Jun 1, 1971 · Death in Venice: Directed by Luchino Visconti. With Dirk Bogarde, Romolo Valli, Mark Burns, Nora Ricci. While recovering in Venice, sickly composer Gustav von Aschenbach becomes dangerously fixated with teenager Tadzio.
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- Drama, Romance
- Luchino Visconti
- 1971-06-01
Composer Gustave Aschenbach (Dirk Bogarde) travels to a Venice resort to escape personal and artistic stress. However, peace eludes him as he develops a disturbing attraction to an adolescent boy...
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- Luchino Visconti
- PG
- Dirk Bogarde
Oct 14, 2014 · Death In Venice (1971) Official Trailer - Luchino Visconti Drama Movie D. Rotten Tomatoes Classic Trailers. 1.68M subscribers. 730K views 9 years ago. ...more. Subscribe to CLASSIC TRAILERS:...
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Death in Venice. 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.
- Gustav Von Aschenbach
The failure is fatal to the movie's success; but the physical beauty of the film itself is overwhelming. The world of the Lido of sixty years ago has been re-created in painstaking detail. The fashions, the entertainments, the table settings reveal Visconti's compulsion for accuracy.
In this adaptation of the Thomas Mann novel, avant-garde composer Gustav von Aschenbach (Sir Dirk Bogarde) travels to a Venetian seaside resort seeking repose after a period of artistic and personal stress.
