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Death in Venice (1971) Movie Overview
Death in Venice 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. 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 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 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 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… Source
- Death in Venice Movie Details
- Director: Luchino Visconti
- Country: Italy , France
- Run Time: 130 min
- Genre: Drama , Fantasy
- Cast Overview
Dirk Bogarde as Gustav von Aschenbach
Romolo Valli as Hotel manager- Mark Burns as Alfred
- Nora Ricci as Governess
Marisa Berenson as Frau von Aschenbach
Carole André as Esmeralda (as Carole Andre)
Death in Venice Movie Review from New York Times
Based on a novel by Thomas Mann, Death in Venice stars Dirk Bogarde as a German composer who is terrified that he has lost all vestiges of humanity. While visiting Venice, Bogarde falls in love with a beautiful young boy (Bjorn Andresen). The relationship is ruined by Bogarde’s obsession with the boy’s youth and physical perfection; the composer re… Source
Death in Venice Movie Details from Imdb
In this adaptation of the Thomas Mann novel, avant-garde composer Gustave Aschenbach (loosely based on Gustav Mahler) travels to a Venetian seaside resort in search of repose after a period of artistic and personal stress. But he finds no peace there, for he soon develops a troubling attraction to an adolescent boy, Tadzio, on vacation with his fam… Source
Death in Venice (1971) from YouTube
