Death In Venice (1971)
Directed by Luchino Visconti · Cinematography by Pasqualino De Santis
GP130 min64 frames
Drama
The celebrated story of a man obsessed with ideal beauty.
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What is Death In Venice about?
Composer 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 Grand Hôtel des Bains on the Lido as Aschenbach.
Death in Venice is a 1971 historical drama film directed and produced by Italian filmmaker Luchino Visconti, and adapted by Visconti and Nicola Badalucco from the 1912 novella of the same name by German author Thomas Mann. It stars Dirk Bogarde as Gustav von Aschenbach and Björn Andrésen as Tadzio, with supporting roles played by Mark Burns, Marisa Berenson, and Silvana Mangano, and was filmed in Technicolor by Pasqualino De Santis. The soundtrack consists of selections from Gustav Mahler's third and fifth symphonies, but characters in the film also perform pieces by Franz Lehár, Ludwig van Beethoven, and Modest Mussorgsky. Preceded by The Damned (1969) and followed by Ludwig (1973), the film is the second part of Visconti's thematic "German Trilogy".
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Across 64 sampled frames, Death In Venice builds its coverage from medium shots (33% of the sample), with wide compositions (31%) carrying much of the rest. Cinematographer Pasqualino De Santis keeps 53% of it in soft, naturalistic light. 42% of the frames play at night or in the failing light of dusk. Vintage glass shapes the frame. Focus stays shallow in 56% of the frames, isolating subjects from their surroundings.
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