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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.
Its decadence and lavish beauty are characteristic of Visconti's aesthetic − very visible also in the movie Death in Venice (1971) that adapted the daring novella Death in Venice published in 1912 by Thomas Mann. Visconti's final film was The Innocent (1976), in which he returns to his recurring interest in infidelity and betrayal.
Luchino Visconti, Sergio Garfagnoli and Björn Andrésen during the filming of Death in Venice in 1971. Björn Johan Andrésen (born 26 January 1955) is a Swedish actor and musician. He is best known for playing the 14-year-old Tadzio in Luchino Visconti's 1971 film adaptation of the 1912 Thomas Mann novella Death in Venice.
The Swedish teenager was handpicked by legendary Italian auteur Luchino Visconti to star as Tadzio in the 1971 film adaptation of the 1912 Thomas Mann novella “Death in Venice.” In the film ...
On March 1, 1971, “Death in Venice” had its world premiere in London, in the presence of the Queen and Princess Anne. That night, Visconti declared Andrésen to be “the most beautiful boy in ...
A film adaptation of Death in Venice starring Dirk Bogarde was made by Luchino Visconti in 1971. Benjamin Britten transformed Death in Venice into an opera, his last, in 1973. The novella was dramatised by Peter Wolf for BBC Radio 3 in 1997. [15] John Neumeier adapted it for a ballet for his Hamburg Ballet company in December 2003. [16]
Luchino Visconti and Björn Andrésen on the set of Death in Venice. The Most Beautiful Boy in the World (Swedish: Världens vackraste pojke) is a 2021 Swedish documentary film about Björn Andrésen and the effects of fame thrust upon him when he appeared in Luchino Visconti's 1971 film Death in Venice. Andrésen was just 16 when the film came ...
1971 Death in Venice: Pasquale "Pasqualino" De Santis (24 April 1927 – 23 June 1996) was an Italian cinematographer. Biography. Born in Fondi, he was the brother ...