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Luchino Visconti di Modrone, Count of Lonate Pozzolo ( Italian: [luˈkiːno viˈskonti di moˈdroːne]; 2 November 1906 – 17 March 1976) was an Italian filmmaker, theatre and opera director, and screenwriter. He was one of the fathers of cinematic neorealism, but later moved towards luxurious, sweeping epics dealing with themes of beauty ...
- 17 March 1976 (aged 69), Rome, Italy
- Eriprando Visconti (nephew)
Visconti’s direction of theater plays, for which he is unfairly little-known, was even more daring. Browsing their titles, one suspects he cherry-picked his subjects from Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman , Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire and Jean Cocteau’s Les Parents terribles with the sole purpose of shocking the public.
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Mar 17, 2016 · Luchino Visconti di Modrone is one of the few film directors who also had the distinction of calling himself a genuine aristocrat. Born in 1906 to a noble family in northern Italy, his well-bred background and international art education only seemed to enable his subversive tendencies. Visconti was both a Marxist and openly homosexual at a time ...
One of seven children, Visconti was born in Milan into a noble and wealthy family, one of the region's richest. His father Giuseppe Visconti di Modrone was the Duke of Grazzano. In his early years he was exposed to art, music and theatre, and met the composer Giacomo Puccini, the conductor Arturo Toscanini, and the writer Gabriele d'Annunzio. During World War II Visconti joined the Italian ...
May 23, 2018 · Visconti (di Modrone), (Count) Luchino ( b Milan, 1906; d Rome, 1976). It. producer, designer, and writer. Came of family with long assoc. with La Scala. Began career as stage and film dir. and went into opera because of admiration for Maria Callas, for whom he prod. La Vestale in 1954.
Sep 17, 2006 · In “The Leopard,” Luchino Visconti’s masterful movie adaptation of Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa’s novel of the same name, the Tancredi character, played by Alain Delon, says, “For things ...
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 ...
