Death in Venice
Filmfest 2013
PT: Tod in Venedig
OT: MORTE A VENEZIA
France, Italy 1971
German Version
(Original: German)
Director: Luchino Visconti
Section: Open Air - Venice
Dirk Bogarde gave the greatest performance of his career, in fact one of the greatest of any screen performances, in Visconti's magnificent version of the Thomas Mann novella, played out in a series of long, often wordless takes which are miraculously suffused with spiritual meaning. (...) It is the secret spiritual history of a man who knows he is dying, and yet convinced of a mad and passionate truth in his infatuation ...
Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian, 14.02.2003
Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Marisa Berenson, Björn Andrésen, Silvana Mangano, Romolo Valli
Credits
Screenplay: Luchino Visconti, Nicola Badalucco, Original von / by: Thomas Mann
Director of Photography: Pasquale De Santis
Film Editor: Ruggero Mastroianni
Composer: Gustav Mahler
Production Designer: Ferdinando Scarfiotti
Costume Design: Piero Tosi
Sound: Renato Cadueri
Producer: Luchino Visconti
Production Company: Alfa Cinematografica
Distributor: Warner Bros. Pictures Germany
Director: Luchino Visconti
