Luchino Visconti: Life as in a Novel
Death in Venice
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55m
This 2008 documentary about the career of DEATH IN VENICE director Luchino Visconti features new and archival interviews with Visconti: actors Burt Lancaster, Silvana Mangano, and Marcello Mastroianni; filmmakers Francesco Rosi and Franco Zeffirelli; and others.
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Stefano Albertini on DEATH IN VENICE
In this 2018 program, literature and cinema scholar Stefano Albertini provides context for DEATH IN VENICE within Italian culture and explores the career, style, and themes of director Luchino Visconti.
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Alla ricerca di Tadzio
Made in 1970, this program follows director Luchino Visconti as he searches all over Europe for an actor to fill the role of Tadzio in his dream project, DEATH IN VENICE, before discovering Björn Andrésen.
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Musiques au coeur
This segment from a documentary about music in the films of director Luchino Visconti, which was originally broadcast May 13, 1990, on France 2, features actors Marisa Berenson and Dirk Bogarde discussing the filmmaker and his use of the work of Gustav Mahler in DEATH IN VENICE.
