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Death in Venice (film) Death in Venice. (film) 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. It stars Dirk Bogarde as Gustav von Aschenbach ...
- $2 million
- Luchino Visconti
- Luchino Visconti
Death in Venice at Internet Archive. Death in Venice ( German: Der Tod in Venedig) is a novella by German author Thomas Mann, published in 1912. [1] 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
- Novella
- 1912
- 1912
Jun 1, 1971 · A drama romance film directed by Luchino Visconti, starring Dirk Bogarde as a composer obsessed with a young boy in Venice. Based on Thomas Mann's novella, the film features music by Gustav Mahler and explores themes of art, beauty and death.
- (23K)
- Drama, Romance
- Luchino Visconti
- 1971-06-01
Rated: 2/5 May 20, 2003 Full Review Wael Khairy The Cinephile Fix “Death in Venice” is a film about humanity’s slow transcendence into nothingness and everything. It exists in the space ...
- (365)
- Luchino Visconti
- PG
- Dirk Bogarde
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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 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.
A classic novella by Thomas Mann becomes a masterpiece of cinema by Luchino Visconti, starring Dirk Bogarde as a composer obsessed with a young boy in Venice. Explore the film's themes, music, cast, and special features with this Criterion edition.
