The film starring Dirk Bogarde with Bjorn Andresen Silvana Mangano
Venice, the turn of the century. A famous composer, Gustav von Aschenbach , arrives at the Lido dispirited and in desperate need of tranquility. Among his fellow guests is an exquisitely beautiful boy who embodies the grace and purity von Aschenbach has sought all his life. When a cholera epidemic grips the city the composer refuses to leave, unable to forsake the boy. Dirk Bogarde gives -one of his greatest screen performances in this sumptuous film.
Screenplay by LUCHINO VISCONTI and NICOLA BADALUCCO, based on the novel Death in Venice by THOMAS MANN Directed by LUCHINO VISCONTI
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