Gustav Mahler
Author
Series
BBC music magazine volume 8, no. 9
Publisher
BBC Music Magazine
Pub. Date
p2000
Language
English
10) Death in Venice
Series
Criterion collection volume 962
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A fastidious composer reeling from a disastrous concert, Gustav von Aschenbach (Dirk Bogarde) travels to Venice to recover. There, he is struck by a vision of pure beauty in the form of a young boy named Tadzio (Björn Andrésen), his infatuation developing into an obsession even as rumors of a plague spread through the city. Based on the novella by Thomas Mann, this late masterpiece from Luchino Visconti is a meditation on the nature of art, the...