Luchino Visconti's chronicle of social and political revolution, discussed in last week's Moving Pictures. Based on the novel by Giuseppe di Lampedusa and starring Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon.

As 19th-century Italian nationalism gathers force, Don Fabrizio, the Prince of Salina - known as the Leopard - comes to realise that he and the old aristocratic order are doomed.
(1963)

(Critics' Choice see page 45)