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Death in Venice

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Genres: Drama
Starring: Dirk Bogarde, Romolo Valli, Mark Burns
Director: Luchino Visconti
Plot Synopsis:

Based on the classic novella by Thomas Mann, this late-career masterpiece from Luchino Visconti is a meditation on the nature of art, the allure of beauty, and the inescapability of death. A fastidious composer reeling from a disastrous concert, Gustav von Aschenbach (Dirk Bogarde, in an exquisitely nuanced performance) travels to Venice to recover. There, he is struck by a vision of pure beauty in the form of a young boy (Björn Andrésen), his infatuation developing into an obsession even as rumors of a plague spread through the city. Setting Mann’s story of queer desire and bodily decay against the sublime music of Gustav Mahler, Death in Venice is one of cinema’s most exalted literary adaptations, as sensually rich as it is allegorically resonant.

  • Release Details
    Release Date: February 19th, 2019
    Movie Release Year: 1971
    Release Country: United States
    Movie Studio: Criterion
  • Technical Specs
    Length:131 Minutes
    Specs:Blu-ray
    Video Resolution/Codec:1080p/AVC MPEG-4
    Aspect Ratio(s):2.35:1
    Audio Formats:English LPCM Mono
    Special Features:Luchino Visconti: Life as in a Romance, a 2008 documentary about Visconti, featuring actors Burt Lancaster, Silvana Mangano, and Marcello Mastroianni; filmmakers Francesco Rosi and Franco Zeffirelli; and others
    Alla ricerca di Tadzio, a 1970 program on Visconti’s efforts to cast the role of Tadzio
    New program featuring literature and cinema scholar Stefano Albertini
    Interview from 2006 with costume designer Piero Tosi
    Excerpt from a 1990 program about the music in Visconti’s films, featuring Bogarde and actor Marisa Berenson
    Television broadcast from 1971 in which Visconti discusses the film
    Visconti’s Venice, a short 1970 behind-the-scenes documentary featuring Visconti and Bogarde
    Trailer
    PLUS: An essay by critic Dennis Lim
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