Dirk Bogarde
Gustav von Aschenbach
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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.
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Death in Venice (German: Der Tod in Venedig) is a novella by German author Thomas Mann, published in 1912. It presents an ennobled writer who visits Venice and is liberated, uplifted, and then increasingly obsessed by the sight of a boy in a family of Polish tourists—Tadzio, so nicknamed for Tadeusz.
- Thomas Mann
- 1912
Jun 1, 1971 · A sickly composer becomes obsessed with a young boy in Venice, where a deadly plague looms. IMDb provides cast and crew, user and critic reviews, trivia, goofs, quotes, and more for this Oscar-nominated drama.
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- Drama, Romance
- Luchino Visconti
- 1971-06-01
Roger Ebert criticizes Visconti's adaptation of Thomas Mann's novel for its lack of ambiguity and subtlety. He praises the film's visual beauty and the plague-stricken Venice, but regrets the simplification of the homosexual love story.
Death in Venice. Based on the classic novella by Thomas Mann, this late-career masterpiece from Luchino Visconti is a meditation on the nature of art, the allure of beauty, and the inescapability of death.
- Gustav Von Aschenbach
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...
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- Drama, LGBTQ+
- PG
Death in Venice is a novella written by German author >Thomas Mann, first published in 1912 as Der Tod in Venedig. The work presents a great writer suffering writer's block who visits Venice and is liberated, uplifted, and then increasingly obsessed, by the sight of a stunningly beautiful youth.
