Prince Don Fabrizio Salina
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Plot. In Sicily in the year 1860, Don Fabrizio Corbera, Prince of Salina, enjoys the customary comforts and privileges of his ancestry. War has broken out between the armies of Francis II of the Two Sicilies and the insurgent volunteer redshirts of Giuseppe Garibaldi.
The Leopard: Directed by Luchino Visconti. With Burt Lancaster, Claudia Cardinale, Alain Delon, Paolo Stoppa. The Prince of Salina, a noble aristocrat of impeccable integrity, tries to preserve his family and class amid the tumultuous social upheavals of 1860s Sicily.
- (29K)
- Drama, History
- Luchino Visconti
- 1963-03-29
Feb 26, 2018 · Directed by Luchino Visconti with Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon and Claudia Cardinale. The Leopard Blu-ray (Amazon) : https://amzn.to/3wdwako The Leopard Blu-ray (Criterion) :...
Sep 14, 2003 · Advertisement. We see him first leading his family at prayer. That is also the way Lampedusa's novel begins, and one of Visconti's achievements is to make that rare thing, a great film of a great book. Word comes that there is a dead soldier in the garden.
The Leopard is a 1963 masterpiece by Luchino Visconti, based on a novel by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa. It depicts the decline of the aristocracy in Italy's Risorgimento, with Burt Lancaster, Claudia Cardinale, and Alain Delon in the cast.
- Don Fabrizio Corbera, Prince of Salina
the violent, chaotic, lengthy battle war-sequence pitting Garibaldi's volunteers fighting the Bourdbon government's soldiers in the streets of Palermo, resulting in building rubble, bomb craters, with many deaths and some executions.
Visconti's film The Leopard feels like a weeping portrait of an Italian prince saying goodbye to his old royal family lifestyle in Italy that went from monarchy into a new age of aristocracy...
- (50)
- History, Drama
- PG
