Death in Venice
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
- Resource Type:
- DVD Video
- Publication:
- [Rome] : Alfa Cinematografica, 2004
- Distribution:
- Burbank, CA : Distributed by Warner Home Video
- Copyright:
- ©1971
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- 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.
- Table of Contents:
- Credits
- Venice arrival
- A ride for nothing
- Hotel des Bains
- Until the last moment
- Salon crowd
- A boy and his family
- Beauty's origins
- On the beach
- Tadzio
- Contaminated?
- Farewell glance
- Trunk mishap
- Family memory
- Inspired
- No need for concern
- Esmerelda
- "I love you."
- City of secrets
- Sinister serenade
- Asiatic cholera
- With/without warning
- Makeover
- Failing shadow
- Stillborn perfection
- Deserted
- Tadzio and Jasciu fight
- Death's reach
- End credits.
- Contributors:
- Language Notes:
- Closed captioned.
Soundtrack in English [occasional untranslated Italian, French, and Polish] with optional English, French, or Spanish subtitles. - Related Works:
- Motion picture adaptation of: Tod in Venedig [by Mann, T.]
- Subjects:
- Genres:
- System Details:
- DVD, region 1, Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono, presented in anamorphic widescreen preserving original theatrical aspect ratio, 2.35:1.
- Performers:
- Cast: 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).
- Production Credits:
- 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.
- General Notes:
- From the novel by Thomas Mann, "Tod in Venedig."
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1971.
Winner, Prix du XXVème [25th] anniversaire du Festival International du Film, Cannes, 1971.
Special features include: Visconti's Venice (9 min.) ; A tour of Venice [slide show of stills from the film] ; Theatrical trailer (4 min.). - Audience:
- MPAA Rating: Rated PG-13.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (131 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- Physical Characteristics:
- plastic; metal; polychrome
- Audio Characteristics:
- digital; optical
- Digital Characteristics:
- video file; DVD video; region 1
- Call Numbers:
- DEA 1971 DVD
- ISBNs:
- 0790785307
9780790785301 - Other Standard Numbers:
- Universal Product Code: 085392888122
Publisher Number, Warner Home Video: 28881 - OCLC Numbers:
- 55125384
