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Death In Venice (DVD, 2004)

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The character of von Aschenbach was modelled on Gustav Mahler, whose music is heard throughout the film.

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item 1 DEATH IN VENICE DVD 1971 Dirk Bogarde, Luchino Visconti Film UK Region 2
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One man becomes so obsessed by the beauty of a young boy in Venice that he cannot bear to leave, even when the city is affected by a plague. Based on the novel by Thomas Mann.

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7321900288811
eBay Product ID (ePID)
30486071

Product Key Features

Film/TV Title
Death in Venice
Actor
Bjorn Andresen, Mark Burns, Dirk Bogarde, Marisa Berenson, Silvana Mangano
Director
Luchino Visconti
Format
DVD
Release Year
2004
Language
English
Features
Featurette-1. Visconti's Venice\Trailer\Tour of Venice Photo Gallery
Run Time
125 Mins
Genre
Drama, Period

Additional Product Features

Certificate
15
Number of Discs
1
Country/Region of Manufacture
Italy
Director of Photography
Pasqualino De Santis
Author
Thomas Mann
Additional Information
Luchino Visconti's striking adaptation of Thomas Mann's DEATH IN VENICE follows the sickly composer, Gustav von Aschenbach (Dirk Bogarde). As the film begins, Aschenbach is arriving by steam boat in Venice from Munich. He is deeply distracted, nervous, uncomfortable, and conflicted. Nonetheless, he settles into a breathtaking seaside resort, where he fixates on Tadzio (Bjorn Andresen), an angelic blond Polish boy who is there with his family. While flashbacks to happy times spent with his wife and small daughter fill in some of the blanks of Aschenbach's personal past, others recall Aschenbach's harsh and competitive friend, Alfred (Mark Burns), who criticised Aschenbach's music for being overly perfected and thus lacking in beauty and passion. Through these flashbacks, it becomes evident that Aschenbach feels defeated in both his personal and his professional lives. The film uses very little dialogue, relying largely on the characters's facial expressions to communicate the tortured mentality of the protagonist, the curious vanity of young Tadzio, and the precocious airs of the bourgeois women who parade the Venetian beaches in taffeta, bonnets, and parasols. As Aschenbach's infatuation with Tadzio grows beyond his control, he learns that, "Venice is gripped by pestilence," and the city is being sequestered to prevent the spread of a cholera outbreak. With concentrated, languid pacing, a colour scheme consisting of bold blacks and stark whites that are a constant reminder of the inevitable, and some hauntingly surreal scenes, DEATH IN VENICE captures the poignancy of Mann's novel with a sharp, sinister, and unwavering accuracy.
Movie/TV Title
Death In Venice
Music
Gustav Mahler

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5 out of 5 stars
by gbaw557025 Nov, 2020
Great film
A classic film not a huge amount of talking but acted well by Dirk Bogart
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5 out of 5 stars
by olde-filmfan14 Apr, 2023
Fits both the authorities denial of cholera in Venice and this man's death
Not to everyone's taste but Dirk Bogard shows his true acting skill in portraying a man who is secretly homosexual but denied the youthful object of his obsession
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3 out of 5 stars
by clarkuk_c0stpz22 Feb, 2018
Panorama version
I didn't expect it to be a panorama version so we had to watch the film as a strip across our sceen
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4 out of 5 stars
by Sj-0KM1USz-@Del...15 Nov, 2017
classic
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4 out of 5 stars
by dC_2qqOfQSm@Del...16 Jan, 2019
Mahler's music
I hope to see and hear the film very soon
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Great film

Fits both the authorities denial of cholera in Venice and this man's death

Panorama version

classic

Mahler's music

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