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Luchino Visconti was born into a prominent noble family in Milan, one of seven children of Giuseppe Visconti di Modrone, Duke of Grazzano Visconti and Count of Lonate Pozzolo, and his wife Carla (née Erba, heiress to Erba Pharmaceuticals).
- 17 March 1976 (aged 69), Rome, Italy
- Eriprando Visconti (nephew)
Oct 8, 2015 · It is famously a paradox embodied by Visconti himself. Born a wealthy aristocrat (his official title was Count don Luchino Visconti di Modrone), he was friends with the likes of opera composer ...
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Obsession (Ossessione, 1943), based on James M. Cain’s tragic novel The Postman Always Rings Twice, is a passionate drama about a love triangle. The movie allegedly escaped the clutches of Fascist censorship only because Mussolini himself liked it. Visconti’s direction of theater plays, for which he is unfairly little-known, was even more ...
Jun 7, 2018 · June 7, 2018. Among the Italian filmmakers who achieved international prominence in the decades after World War II, Luchino Visconti possessed perhaps the sharpest historical insight and the ...
Luchino Visconti. Writer: The Leopard. Born in his ancestral palazzo, situated in the same Milanese square as both the opera house La Scala and the Milan Cathedral, Luchino Visconti (1906 - 1976) was raised under the auspices of aristocratic privilege, theater and Catholicism.
- January 1, 1
- Milan, Lombardy, Italy
- January 1, 1
- Rome, Lazio, Italy
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 ...
Apr 4, 2015 · Ossessione may not be Visconti’s most polished or epic film, but it is a great debut, capturing a realistic portrait of Italian life. 2. La Terra Trema (1948) La Terra Trema is Visconti’s most dedicated addition to the Neo-realist genre, employing non-professional actors and the use of real locations as sets.
