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Uniform Title Morte a Venezia (Motion picture).
Title Death in Venice / WB presents ; a film produced and directed by Luchino Visconti for Alfa Cinematografica ; screenplay by Luchino Visconti, Nicola Badalucco ; directed by Luchino Visconti.

Publication Info. [New York, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, [2019]
©2019.

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Location Call No. Status
 South Windsor Public Library - Audio-Visual Materials  DVD DEATH IN VENICE DISC 1-2    On Holdshelf
Edition Two-DVD special edition.
Description 2 videodiscs (131 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert (12 unnumbered pages ; 19 cm).
Physical Medium 4 3/4 in. rda
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Series The Criterion collection ; 962
Criterion collection ; 962.
System Details DVD; region 1, NTSC; 16:9 widescreen presentation; Dolby digital 1.0 monaural.
Cast Dirk Bogarde, Romolo Valli, Mark Burns, Nora Ricci, Marisa Berenson, Carole André, Björn Andresen, Silvana Mangano.
Credits Director of photography, Pasquale De Santis ; editor, Ruggero Mastroianni ; art director, Ferdinando Scarfiotti ; costume designer, Piero Tosi ; music by Gustav Mahler.
Note Based on novella by Thomas Mann.
Title and credits from screen.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1971.
Restored by Cineteca di Bologna and Istituto Luce-Cinecittà, in collaboration with Warner Bros. and the Criterion Collection.
Aspect ratio, 2.35:1.
Contents disc one. [Feature film + trailer] -- disc two. [Special features].
Summary A fastidious composer reeling from a disastrous concert, Gustav von Aschenbach (Dirk Bogarde) travels to Venice to recover. There, he is struck by a vision of pure beauty in the form of a young boy named Tadzio (Björn Andrésen), his infatuation developing into an obsession even as rumors of a plague spread through the city. Based on the novella by Thomas Mann, this late masterpiece from Luchino Visconti is a meditation on the nature of art, the allure of beauty, and the inescapability of death. Setting Mann's story of queer desire and bodily decay against the music of Gustav Mahler, it is one of cinema's most exalted literary adaptations.
Note Special features: Luchino Visconti: life as a novel (2008 documentary); Showing the story (new program featuring literature and cinema scholar Stefano Albertini); Alla ricerca di Tadzio (a 1970 short film about Visconti's efforts to cast the role of Tadzio); Talking about Venice (nterview from 2006 with costume designer Piero Tosi ); Musiques au cœur (excerpt from a 1990 program about the music in Visconti's films, featuring Bogarde and actor Marisa Berenson); Visconti à propos de Morte à Venise (segement from the June 2, 1972 episode of the news program Midi magazine with an interview of Visconti); Visconti's Venice (a behind-the-scenes documentary); trailer; booklet essay by critic Dennis Lim.
Audience MPAA rating: PG.
Language Chiefly in English, with some Italian, Polish, French, German and Russian; optional English SDH subtitles.
Subject Middle-aged men -- Drama.
Gay men -- Drama.
Vacations -- Italy -- Venice -- Drama.
Venice (Italy) -- Drama.
Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955 -- Film adaptations.
Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955. (OCoLC)fst00029132
Vacations. (OCoLC)fst01163528
Gay men. (OCoLC)fst00939117
Middle-aged men. (OCoLC)fst01020373
Italy -- Venice. (OCoLC)fst01204473
Genre/Form Melodramas (Motion pictures) (OCoLC)fst01726217
Drama. (OCoLC)fst01423879
Feature films. (OCoLC)fst01710384
Fiction films. (OCoLC)fst01710264
Film adaptations. (OCoLC)fst01710491
Video recordings for the hearing impaired. (OCoLC)fst01710450
Melodramas (Motion pictures).
Film adaptations.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Motion pictures, Italian.
Added Author Visconti, Luchino, 1906-1976, film director, film producer, screenwriter.
Badalucco, Nicola, screenwriter.
De Santis, Pasqualino, director of photography.
Scarfiotti, Ferdinando, art director.
Tosi, Piero, costume designer.
Mahler, Gustav, 1860-1911, composer (expression)
Bogarde, Dirk, 1921-1999, actor.
Andresen, Björn, 1955- actor.
Valli, Romolo, 1925-1980, actor.
Mastroianni, Ruggero, editor of moving image work.
Burns, Mark, 1936-2007, actor.
Berenson, Marisa, 1942- actor.
Ricci, Nora, actor.
André, Carole, actor.
Mangano, Silvana, 1930-1989, actor.
Motion picture adaptation of (work): Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955. Tod in Venedig.
Warner Bros. Pictures (1969- ), presenter.
Alfa Cinematografica, production company.
Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.
Standard No. 715515226615
ISBN 9781681435534
1681435535
Music No. CC2996DDVD The Crierion Collection
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