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ENTER THE WORLD of Luchino Visconti
Luchino Visconti di Modrone, Count of Lonate Pozzolo (2 November 1906 – 17 March 1976)
Italian filmmaker, theatre and opera director, and screenwriter.
He was one of the fathers of cinematic neorealism but later moved towards luxurious, sweeping epics dealing with themes of beauty, decadence, death, and European history, especially the decay of the nobility and the bourgeoisie. Critic Jonathan Jones wrote that "no one did as much to shape Italian cinema as Luchino Visconti.” (The Guardia)
Luchino Visconti’s films are best described as a bridge between neorealist grit and operatic decadence. As a director who was both a Marxist and a Milanese aristocrat, his work is characterized by intense visual opulence, deep historical insight into the decline of the nobility, and a preoccupation with beauty, decay, and death.
Luchino Visconti's best films are celebrated for their opulent historical staging, intense emotional melodrama, and transition from raw Italian neorealism to lavish decadence.
His essential masterpieces include Il Gattopardo/The Leopard (1963), Rocco e i suoi fratelli/Rocco and His Brothers (1960), Senso (1954), Morte a Venezia/Death in Venice (1971), La Terra Trema (1948) and his debut, Ossessione (1943)
Luchino Visconti: La Terra Trema [OmeU] IT, 1948, R: Luchino Visconti mit Antonio Arcidiacono, Giuseppe Arcidiacono, Venera Bonaccorso, 160 Min
Luchino Visconti: Ossessione [OmeU] IT, 1943, R: Luchino Visconti mit Massimo Girotti, Clara Calamai, Juan de Landa, 140 min
Luchino Visconti: Boccaccio `70 [OmeU] IT/FR, 1962, R: Luchino Visconti u.a. mit Sophia Loren, Anita Ekberg, Romy Schneider, 208 min
Luchino Visconti: Ludwig [OmeU] IT/FR/DE, 1973, R: Luchino Visconti mit Helmut Berger, Romy Schneider, Trevor Howard, 238 Min
Luchino Visconti: The Witches [Le streghe] [OmeU] IT/FR, 1967, R: Luchino Visconti u.a. mit Silvana Mangano, Clint Eastwood, Annie Girardot, 120 Min
Luchino Visconti: Senso [OmeU] IT, 1954, R: Luchino Visconti mit Farley Granger, Alida Valli, Massimo Girotti, 123 Min
Luchino Visconti: Bellissima [OmeU] IT, 1951, R: Luchino Visconti mit Anna Magnani, Walter Chiari, Tina Apicella, 114 Min
Luchino Visconti: The Stranger [Lo straniero] [OmeU] IT/FR/DZ, 1967, R: Luchino Visconti mit Marcello Mastroianni, Anna Karina, Bernard Blier, 104 Min
Luchino Visconti: Gruppo di famiglia in un interno [Conversation Piece, Gewalt und Leidenschaft] [OmeU] IT, 1974, R: Luchino Visconti mit Helmut Berger, Burt Lancaster, Silvana Mangano, 121 Min
Luchino Visconti: The Damned [La caduta degli dei] [OmeU] IT, 1969, R: Luchino Visconti mit Dirk Bogarde, Helmut Berger, Ingrid Thulin, 154 Min