Death in Venice (in Italian Morte a Venezia) is a 1971 film directed by Luchino Visconti and starring Dirk Bogarde and Björn Andrésen. The film is based on the novella Death in Venice by Thomas Mann. Luchino Visconti. ... For other persons named Thomas Mann, see Thomas Mann (disambiguation). ... Sir Derek Jules Gaspard Ulric Niven van den Bogaerde (28 March 1921 – 8 May 1999), better known by his stage name Dirk Bogarde, was an actor and author. ... Silvana Mangano (April 21,[1] 1930 – December 16, 1989) was an Italian actress. ... Romolo Valli (born 7 February 1925 - died 1 February 1980) was an Italian actor. ... Reproduction of cover page Germaine Geers book The Beautiful Boy Björn Johan Andrésen was born in Stockholm, Sweden on 26 January 1955. ... “Mahler” redirects here. ... Pasqualino De Santis (born 24 April 1927 in Fondi, Italy - death 23 June 1996) was an Academy Award winning Italian cinematographer. ... Ruggero Mastroianni (Rome, 7 November 1929 - Torvaianica, 16 September 1996) was an Italian film editor. ... “WB” redirects here. ... is the 60th day of the year (61st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... See also: 1970 in film 1971 1972 in film 1970s in film years in film film // Events February 8 - Bob Dylans hour long documentary film, Eat the Document, premieres at New Yorks Academy of Music. ... Death in Venice may refer to: Death in Venice, a 1912 novella by Thomas Mann Death in Venice (film), a 1971 film starring Dirk Bogarde Death in Venice (opera), an opera by Benjamin Britten Category: ... Luchino Visconti. ... Sir Derek Jules Gaspard Ulric Niven van den Bogaerde (28 March 1921 – 8 May 1999), better known by his stage name Dirk Bogarde, was an actor and author. ... Reproduction of cover page Germaine Geers book The Beautiful Boy Björn Johan Andrésen was born in Stockholm, Sweden on 26 January 1955. ... The novella Death in Venice was written by the German author Thomas Mann, and was first published in 1912 as Der Tod in Venedig. ... For other persons named Thomas Mann, see Thomas Mann (disambiguation). ...

Outline of the film

The protagonist, Gustav von Aschenbach, travels to Venice for health reasons. There, he becomes obsessed with the stunning beauty of an adolescent Polish boy named Tadzio who is staying with his family at the same hotel on the Lido as von Aschenbach. A protagonist is the main figure of a piece of literature or drama and has the main part or role. ... For other uses, see Venice (disambiguation). ... Lido and the Venetian Lagoon. ...

While the character von Aschenbach in the novella is an author, Visconti changed his profession to that of a composer. "Playing the role" of von Aschenbach's music in the film is the music of Gustav Mahler, in particular the Adagietto from his Fifth Symphony, which both opens and closes the film, and sections from his Third Symphony. Mahler could be seen as an appropriate composer to use because of his concern with death, which he transposed to his music. Apart from this change, the film is relatively faithful to the book, but with added scenes where von Aschenbach and a musician friend debate the degraded aesthetics of his music - again, this has direct parallels in the life and works of Mahler, especially when von Achenbach is played an extract of his own work which, in reality, is an extract form the final movement from Mahler's Fourth Symphony. “Mahler” redirects here. ... The Adagietto from Gustav Mahlers Fifth Symphony is a piece of music for the strings of an orchestra. ... The Symphony No. ... The Symphony No. ... The Parthenons facade showing an interpretation of golden rectangles in its proportions. ...

While von Aschenbach attempts to find peace and quiet, the rest of the city is being gripped by a cholera epidemic, and the city authorities do not inform the holiday-makers of the problem for fear that they will all leave: "Oh, it is merely the Sirocco", offers one bank clerk as an explanation. As von Aschenbach and the other guests make day-trips out into the city centre it eventually dawns on them that something is seriously wrong. Von Aschenbach decides to leave, but in a moment of impulse decides to stay. However, he himself is dying. Rejuvenated by the presence of Tadzio - though they never actually converse - he visits the barbers who, in his words, "returns to you merely what has been lost", dying his grey hair black and whitening his face and reddening his lips to try and make him look younger. As he leaves the barber's shop the barber exclaims: "And now Sir is ready to fall in love with whomever he pleases". But the result replays the sickly "mutton dressed as lamb" old man von Aschenbach had encountered on the boat approaching Venice at the beginning of the film. Von Aschenbach still continues to gaze at Tadzio from afar, the latter more aware that he is being gazed at. The climax comes with von Aschenbach witnessing Tadzio being beaten up on the beach by an older boy, and at that very moment - heightened by the crescendo in Mahler's Adaggietto - he has a heart attack and dies. While Tadzio and the boy make up, they don't even notice von Aschenbach dying, and they continue to walk along the beach while the other guests alert the hotel staff of what has happened. They then carry von Aschenbach's body away. Cholera (or Asiatic cholera or epidemic cholera) is an extreme diarrheal disease caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae. ... Sirocco, scirocco, jugo or, rarely, siroc is a strong southerly to southeasterly wind in the Mediterranean that originates from the Sahara and similar North African regions. ... A myocardial infarction occurs when an atherosclerotic plaque slowly builds up in the inner lining of a coronary artery and then suddenly ruptures, totally occluding the artery and preventing blood flow downstream. ...

Behind the scenes

In his autobiography, A Postillion Struck by Lightning, Bogarde recounts how the film crew created the deathly white skin which his character displays in the final scenes of the film, just as he dies. Bogarde recalls that the make-up department had tried various face paints and creams, none of which had been satisfactory, as they smeared. When a suitable cream was found and the scenes were being shot, Bogarde recalls that his face began to burn terribly. The tube of cream was found and written on the side was "Do not let this come into contact with the skin": the director had ignored this and had been testing it out, as small patches, on various members of the film crew, before finally having it applied to Bogarde's face.

Critical reception

Film historian Lawrence J. Quirk wrote, in his study, The Great Romantic Films (1974), "Some shots of Björn Andrésen, the Tadzio of the film, could be extracted from the frame and hung on the walls of the Louvre or the Vatican in Rome. For this is not a pretty youngster who is supposed to represent an object of perverted lust; that was neither novelist Mann's nor director-screen writer Visconti's intention. Rather, this is a symbol of a beauty allied to those which inspired Michelangelo's David and Da Vinci's Mona Lisa, and which moved Dante to seek ultimate aesthetic catharsis in the distant figure of Beatrice." Lawrence J. Quirk is an American writer and a longtime Hollywood reporter and film historian. ... This article is about the museum. ... For other uses, see Rome (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Michelangelo (disambiguation). ... This article is about the sculpture by Michelangelo. ... “Da Vinci” redirects here. ... For other uses, see Mona Lisa (disambiguation). ... DANTE is also a digital audio network. ... Catharsis is the Greek Katharsis word meaning purification or cleansing derived from the ancient Greek gerund καθαίρειν transliterated as kathairein to purify, purge, and adjective katharos pure or clean (ancient and modern Greek: καθαρός). // The term in drama refers to a sudden emotional breakdown or climax that constitutes overwhelming feelings of great...

The fact that most of the above mentioned artists (Visconti included) were homosexual seems to him indifferent.

Production credits

• Director: Luchino Visconti
• Cinematographer: Pasqualino De Santis
• Screenplay: Robert Gordon Edwards
• Art Director: Ferdinando Scarfiotti
• Costume Designer: Piero Tosi
• Production Designer: Ferdinando Scarfiotti
• Sound Track: Vittorio Trentino, Giuseppe Muratori
• Producer (associate executive producer): Mario Gallo
• Producer (executive producer), Luchino Visconti

Full cast list

• Dirk Bogarde (Gustav von Aschenbach)
• Mark Burns (Alfred)
• Marisa Berenson (Frau von Aschenbach)
• Björn Andrésen (Tadzio)
• Silvana Mangano (Tadzio's mother)
• Romolo Valli (Hotel manager)
• Nora Ricci (Governess)
• Franco Fabrizi (Barber)
• Sergio Garfagnoli (Jaschu, Polish youth)
• Luigi Battaglia (Scapegrace)
• Masha Predit (Russian tourist)
• Marcello Bonini Olas (Nobleman at hotel party)
• Nicoletta Elmi (Little girl at table)
• Marco Tulli (Man who faints at station)
• Leslie French (Travel Agent)
• Antonio Appicella (Vagrant)
• Ciro Cristofoletti (Hotel clerk)
• Dominique Darel (English tourist)
• Eva Axén (Tadzio's oldest sister)
• Bruno Boschetti (Train station employee)
• Mirella Pamphili (Hotel guest)

Awards

• 1972 BAFTA Awards

Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design, Best Sound Track The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), is a British organization that hosts annual awards shows for film, television, childrens film and television, and interactive media. ...

• 1972, Nastro d'Argento

Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design, Best Production Design. Nastro dArgento (Silver Ribbon) is a movie award assigned each year, since 1947 for cinematic performances and production by Sindacato Nazionale dei Giornalisti Cinematografici Italiani, the association of the Italian Movies Critics. ...

Award nominations

• 1972 Academy Award

Best Costume Design Although he never won an Oscar for any of his movie performances, the comedian Bob Hope received two honorary Oscars for his contributions to cinema. ...

• 1972 BAFTA Awards

Best Actor, Best Direction, Best Film

• 1971 Cannes Film Festival

Golden Palm (Best Film) The Cannes Film Festival (French: le Festival de Cannes), founded in 1939, is one of the worlds oldest, most influential and prestigious film festivals. ...

See also

• Pedophilia and child sexual abuse in fiction (boys)
• Pedophilia and child sexual abuse in films

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References

• Henry Bacon, Visconti: Explorations of beauty and decay. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1998.
• Dirk Bogarde, Postillion Struck by Lightning, London, Orion Books, (New edition) 2006.
• Lawrence J. Quirk, The Great Romantic Films, New York, Citadel Press, 1983.

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