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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.
Sep 14, 2003 · Tancredi is a hothead who leaves to join Garibaldi, but a realist who returns as a member of the army of the victorious Victor Emmanuel. Because of land reforms that he can clearly see on the horizon, the prince believes it is time for the family to make an advantageous marriage.
As Garibaldi's troops begin the unification of Italy in the 1860s, an aristocratic Sicilian family grudgingly adapts to the sweeping social changes undermining their way...
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Jun 6, 2004 · ''The Leopard'' dramatizes a unique moment in Italian history, and the film was unique in its own time, too, that age of cinematic behemoths.
Awarded the Palme d’Or at the 1963 Cannes Film Festival, The Leopard translates Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa's novel, and the history it recounts, into a truly cinematic masterpiece.
Jul 26, 2023 · Adapted from Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa’s 1958 end-of-an-era reverie, Luchino Visconti’s film, as mournful as a moonlit dream, stars Burt Lancaster as Don Fabrizio Corbera, a Sicilian prince...
Aug 13, 2004 · Overview. As Garibaldi's troops begin the unification of Italy in the 1860s, an aristocratic Sicilian family grudgingly adapts to the sweeping social changes undermining their way of life. Proud but pragmatic Prince Don Fabrizio Salina allows his war hero nephew, Tancredi, to marry Angelica, the beautiful daughter of gauche, bourgeois Don ...
In 1860s Sicily, Don Corbera, the Prince of Salina, and his family have long lived a privileged life, largely isolated from the poverty of the masses because of the government corruption that pervades the island.
Aug 13, 2004 · Italy's top bestseller of recent literary history, Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa's The Leopard comes to the screen in a magnificent film, munificently outfitted and splendidly acted by a large cast dominated by Burt Lancaster.
