Death in Venice
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[New York] : Criterion Collection, [2019].
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Published
[New York] : Criterion Collection, [2019].
Format
DVD
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (131 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert (6 unnumbered pages ; 19 cm)
Language
English
UPC
715515226615

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General Note
Aspect ratio, 2.35:1.
General Note
Based on novella by Thomas Mann.
General Note
Originally released as a motion picture in 1971.
General Note
Restored by Cineteca di Bologna and Istituto Luce-Cinecittà, in collaboration with Warner Bros. and the Criterion Collection.
General Note
Special features: Luchino Visconti: life as a novel (2008 documentary); Showing the story (new program featuring literature and cinema scholar Stefano Albertini); Alla ricerca di Tadzio (a 1970 short film about Visconti's efforts to cast the role of Tadzio); Talking about Venice (interview from 2006 with costume designer Piero Tosi ); Musiques au cœur (excerpt from a 1990 program about the music in Visconti's films, featuring Bogarde and actress Marisa Berenson); Visconti à propos de Mort à Venise (segment from the June 2, 1972 episode of the news program Midi magazine with an interview of Visconti); Visconti's Venice (a behind-the-scenes documentary); trailer; booklet essay by critic Dennis Lim.
Creation/Production Credits
Director of photography, Pasquale De Santis ; editor, Ruggero Mastroianni ; art director, Ferdinando Scarfiotti ; costume designer, Piero Tosi ; music by Gustav Mahler.
Participants/Performers
Dirk Bogarde, Romolo Valli, Mark Burns, Nora Ricci, Marisa Berenson, Carole André, Björn Andresen, Silvana Mangano.
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 allure of beauty, and the inescapability of death. Setting Mann's story of queer desire and bodily decay against the music of Gustav Mahler, it is one of cinema's most exalted literary adaptations.
Target Audience
MPAA rating: PG.
System Details
DVD; region 1, NTSC; 16:9 widescreen presentation; Dolby digital 1.0 monaural.
Language
Chiefly in English, with some Italian, Polish, French, German and Russian; optional English SDH subtitles. Closed-captioned.

Citations

APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

André, C., Andresen, B., Badalucco, N., Berenson, M., Bogarde, D., Burns, M., De Santis, P., Mahler, G., Mangano, S., Mastroianni, R., Ricci, N., Scarfiotti, F., Tosi, P., Valli, R., Visconti, L., & Mann, T. (2019). Death in Venice (Two-DVD special edition.). Criterion Collection.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Carole, André et al.. 2019. Death in Venice. Criterion Collection.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Carole, André et al.. Death in Venice Criterion Collection, 2019.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

André, Carole,, et al. Death in Venice Two-DVD special edition., Criterion Collection, 2019.

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