El gatopardo - 1963 - Luchino Visconti
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAg0CbAsUN8#t=16
Título original: Il gattopardo, Año:1963. Duración: 205 min.
País: Italia, Director: Luchino Visconti, Guión:Suso Cecchi d'Amico, Pasquale Festa Campanile, Massimo Franciosa, Enrico Medioli, Luchino Visconti
Música: Nino Rota, Fotografía: Giuseppe Rotunno
Reparto:
Burt Lancaster, Claudia Cardinale, Alain Delon, Paolo Stoppa, Rina Morelli, Romolo Valli, Terence Hill, Pierre Clémenti, Lucilla Morlacchi, Giuliano Gemma, Ida Galli, Ottavia Piccolo
Productora
Productor: Goffredo Lombardo, Género: Drama | Siglo XIX. Histórico
Sinopsis
Película basada en la novela homónima (1958) de Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa. Es la época de la unificación de Italia en torno al Piamonte, cuyo artífice fue Cavour. La acción se desarrolla en Palermo y los protagonistas son Don Fabrizio, Príncipe de Salina (Burt Lancaster), y su familia, cuya vida se ve alterada tras la invasión de Sicilia por las tropas de Garibaldi (1860). Para alejarse de los disturbios, la familia se refugia en la casa de campo que posee en Donnafugata en compañía del joven Tancredi (Alain Delon), sobrino predilecto de Don Fabrizio y simpatizante del movimiento liberal de unificación. (FILMAFFINITY).
Death in Venice (1971) - A film by Luchino Visconti - Dirk Bogarde, Björn Andrésen (Full HD 1080)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeAos94a-fw
Death in Venice (original Italian title: Morte a Venezia) is a 1971 Italian-French drama film directed by Luchino Visconti and starring Dirk Bogarde and Björn Andrésen. It is based on the novella Death in Venice, first published in 1912 as Der Tod in Venedig by the German author Thomas Mann.
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 Grand Hôtel des Bains on the Lido as Aschenbach.
While the character Aschenbach in the novella is an author, Visconti changed his profession to that of a composer. "Playing the role" of Aschenbach's music in the film is the music of Gustav Mahler, in particular the moving Adagietto from his Fifth Symphony, which opens and closes the film, and sections from his Third Symphony. Apart from this change, the film is relatively faithful to the book, but with added scenes where 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 Aschenbach is played an extract of his own work which, in reality, is Adagietto from the fourth movement from Mahler's Fifth Symphony.
While Aschenbach attempts to find peace and quiet, the rest of the city is being ripped by a cholera epidemic, and the city authorities do not inform the holiday-makers of the problem for fear that they will all leave. As Aschenbach and the other guests make day-trips out into the city centre it eventually dawns on them that something is seriously wrong. 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", dyeing his grey hair black and whitening his face and reddening his lips to try to make him look younger. As he leaves the barber's shop the barber exclaims: "And now Sir is ready to fall in love as soon as he pleases". Aschenbach still continues to gaze at Tadzio from afar, the latter more aware that he is being gazed at. In the climactic scene, Aschenbach sees Tadzio being beaten up on the beach by an older boy. When released, Tadzio walks away from him alone towards the horizon. He suddenly turns back to look at Aschenbach, then turning away to face the sun, and stretches his arm out towards it. Aschenbach too, stretches his hand as if to reach Tadzio, and at that very moment — heightened by the crescendo in Mahler's Adagietto— he dies from the cholera infection. A few people notice him collapsed on his chair and alert the hotel staff . They then carry Aschenbach's body away.