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  1. A novella by Thomas Mann about a writer's obsessive love for a young boy in Venice. The story explores themes of art, death, and sexuality, and is based on a real boy Mann saw in 1911.

    • Thomas Mann
    • 1912
  2. 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.

  3. 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
  4. Ebert criticizes Visconti's adaptation of Mann's novel for its lack of ambiguity and subtlety, and its simplistic portrayal of homosexual love. He praises the film's visual beauty and accuracy, but regrets the loss of the philosophical content and the irony of the original story.

  5. Learn about Thomas Mann's symbolic and tragic story of a writer's obsession with a young boy in Venice. Explore the themes of art, life, and death in this classic work of modernism.

    • The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
  6. 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...

    • (28)
    • Drama, LGBTQ+
    • PG
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