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Death in Venice(Movie, 1971)

Original title: "Morte a Venezia" (Italian/IT)
2h 10min | Genres: Drama, History
Death in VeniceRating: 3.7/5 (with 204204 votes)
Death in Venice (Italian: Morte a Venezia) is a 1971 historical drama film directed and produced by Italian filmmaker Luchino Visconti, and adapted by Visconti and Nicola Badalucco from the 1912 novella of the same name by German author Thomas Mann. It stars Dirk Bogarde as Gustav von Aschenbach and Björn Andrésen as Tadzio, with supporting roles played by Mark Burns, Marisa Berenson, and Silvana Mangano, and was filmed in Technicolor by Pasqualino De Santis. The soundtrack consists of selections from Gustav Mahler's third and fifth symphonies, but characters in the film also perform pieces by Franz Lehár, Ludwig van Beethoven, and Modest Mussorgsky. Preceded by The Damned (1969) and followed by Ludwig (1973), the film is the second part of Visconti's thematic "German Trilogy". The fi... ()
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Awards & Nominations for Death in Venice

National Board of Review: Top Ten Films Academy Award for Best Costume Design

About Death in Venice

Composer 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 Grand Hôtel des Bains on the Lido as Aschenbach.

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Additional Information

Production countries: France, Italy
Shot in: Venice
Plays in: Venice
Based on the work of: Thomas Mann ("Death in Venice")
Original language: Italian (IT)
Spoken languages: German (DE), English (EN), French (FR), Italian (IT), Polish (PL), Russian (RU)
Translated into 21 languages: Bulgarian (BG), Czech (CS), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Persian (FA), Finnish (FI), French (FR), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Georgian (KA), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Swedish (SV), Turkish (TR), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date DE: 03/02/1971
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"Muerte en Venecia"
"Dood in Venetië"
"Смърт във Венеция"
"Morte em Veneza"
"魂断威尼斯"
"Der Tod in Venedig"
"Tod in Venedig"
"Døden i Venedig"
"Muerte en Venecia"
"Kuolema Venetsiassa"
"Mort à Venise"
"Sikvdili Veneziashi"
"Thanatos sti Venetia"
"Θάνατος στη Βενετία"
"Smrt u Veneciji"
"Halál Velencében"
"Benisu ni shisu"
"ベニスに死す"
"베니스에서의 죽음"
"Mirtis Venecijoje"
"Dood in Venetië"
"Døden i Venedig"
"Śmierć w Wenecji"
"Morte em Veneza"
"Smrt u Veneciji"
"Смерть в Венеции"
"Döden i Venedig"
"Venedik'te Ölüm"
"魂斷威尼斯"

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