Death in Venice

Resource Information

The work Death in Venice represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of San Diego Libraries. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

Death in Venice

Statement of responsibility

Warner Bros. Pictures ; a film produced and directed by Luchino Visconti for Alfa Cinematografica ; from the novel by Thomas Mann ; screenplay by Luchino Visconti and Nicola Badalucco

Contributor

• Visconti, Luchino, 1906-1976
• Warner Bros. Pictures (1969- )
• Bogarde, Dirk, 1921-1999
• Andresen, Bjørn
• Burns, Mark, 1936-2007
• Mangano, Silvana, 1930-1989
• Berenson, Marisa, 1942-
• Ricci, Nora
• Alfa Cinematografica
• Valli, Romolo, 1925-1980
• Warner Home Video (Firm)
• Badalucco, Nicola
• André, Carole
• Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955

Subject

• Film adaptations
• Feature films -- Italy
• Venice (Italy) -- Drama
• Feature films
• Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955 -- Film adaptations
• Composers -- Germany -- Drama
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired

Genre

• Feature films
• Film adaptations
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Drama

Language

• eng
• eng
• fre
• spa
• eng
• eng

Summary

Composer Gustav von Aschenbach takes a convalescent holiday at the Venice Lido after the death of his child and the disastrous reception of his new compositions. Bored, he indulges an idle, whimsical, faintly epicurean interest in a beautiful boy sporting on the beach. The boy represents an ideal of perfect physical beauty; his youth and naturalness reproach Aschenbach's vanity and creative sterility. The onset of a deadly pestilence resolves his infatuation, as corruption eventually compromises all ideals

Awards note

Winner, Prix du XXVème [25th] anniversaire du Festival International du Film, Cannes, 1971

Cataloging source

EYM

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Director of photography, Pasquale de Santis ; editor, Ruggero Mastroianni ; music by Gustav Mahler from the Third and Fifth Symphonies ; National Academy Orchestra of Santa Cecilia conducted by Franco Mannino

Intended audience

MPAA Rating: Rated PG-13

Language note

Closed-captioned. In English [occasional untranslated Italian, French, and Polish] with optional English, French, or Spanish subtitles

PerformerNote

Dirk Bogarde (Gustav von Aschenbach), Romolo Valli (Hotel manager), Mark Burns (Alfred), Nora Ricci (Tadzio's governess), Marisa Berenson (Frau von Aschenbach), Carole André (Esmerelda), Björn Andresen (Tadzio), Silvana Mangano (Tadzio's mother)

Runtime

131

Technique

live action