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DVD006604

Death in Venice

Visconti, Luchino

Criterion Collection, 2019

Description:

BluRay - Zone A.   viewing copy.   1 videodisc of 1.

Notes:

Supplemental materials include: 2018 interview with scholar Stefano Albertini about Italian context of the film; 2006 interview with costume designer Piero Tosi; excerpt from 1990 program about the music of Visconti films; 1971 interview with Visconti; 1970 behind-the-scenes short documentary; trailers; booklet with essay by critic Dennis Lim.

Titles

+ Death in Venice

Alternate Title:

Morte a Venezia

Director:

Visconti, Luchino

Production Co:

P.E.C.F. (Paris); Alfa Cinematografica

Running Time:

Feature.   131 minutes

Sound:

sound - monaural

Color:

color

Country:

Italy

Year:

1971

Language:

English language

Genre:

Drama, Melodrama, Film Adaptation

Notes:

An elderly composer (Dirk Bogarde) on holiday in Venice becomes obsessed with a young Polish boy as rumors of plague spread throughout the city. Based on Thomas Mann’s novella.

Link to:

FII catalog |

+ Luchino Visconti: Life as in a Novel

Alternate Title:

Luchino Visconti

Director:

Lizzani, Carlo

Production Co:

Felix Films

Running Time:

Feature.   55 minutes

Sound:

sound - monaural

Color:

color and b/w

Country:

Italy

Year:

2008

Language:

Italian language with English subtitles

Genre:

Documentary, Television Production

Notes:

Italian TV documentary (likely produced in 1999, not 2008 as packaging says) about Visconti, featuring interviews with actors, filmmakers, and critics including Burt Lancasterm Franco Zeffirelli, and Claudia Cardinale.

+ Alla ricerca di Tadzio

Director:

Visconti, Luchino

Production Co:

RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana

Running Time:

Short.   30 minutes

Sound:

sound - monaural

Color:

color

Country:

Italy

Year:

1970

Language:

Italian language with English subtitles

Genre:

Documentary, Television Production

Notes:

Documentary on Luchino Visconti's travels and auditions in search for a young actor to portray the role of Tadzio in his adaptation of Thomas Mann's novella DEATH IN VENICE.