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Luchino Visconti di Modrone, Count of Lonate Pozzolo ( Italian: [luˈkiːno viˈskonti di moˈdroːne]; 2 November 1906 – 17 March 1976) was an Italian filmmaker, theatre and opera director, and screenwriter. He was one of the fathers of cinematic neorealism, but later moved towards luxurious, sweeping epics dealing with themes of ...
Luchino Visconti di Modrone, conte di Lonate Pozzolo, noto semplicemente come Luchino Visconti (Milano, 2 novembre 1906 – Roma, 17 marzo 1976), è stato un regista, sceneggiatore, scenografo e partigiano italiano.
Luchino Visconti. Writer: The Leopard. Born in his ancestral palazzo, situated in the same Milanese square as both the opera house La Scala and the Milan Cathedral, Luchino Visconti (1906 - 1976) was raised under the auspices of aristocratic privilege, theater and Catholicism.
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- Milan, Lombardy, Italy
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Luchino Visconti was an Italian motion-picture director whose realistic treatment of individuals caught in the conflicts of modern society contributed significantly to the post-World War II revolution in Italian filmmaking and earned him the title of father of Neorealism.
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Jun 7, 2018 · Among the Italian filmmakers who achieved international prominence in the decades after World War II, Luchino Visconti possessed perhaps the sharpest historical insight and the keenest literary...
Learn about the life and work of Luchino Visconti, a pioneer of Italian neorealism and a cosmopolitan filmmaker with a Gothic sensibility. Explore his family background, his collaborations, his influences and his legacy.
Luchino Visconti occupies a unique place in the history of world cinema; he is the most Italian of internationalists, the most operatic of realists, and the most aristocratic of Marxists.
