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Luchino Visconti: Between Truth and Passion

Nov 15, 2016 · 58m
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Forty years after his death, this documentary pays tribute to one of the major filmmakers of Italian cinema, to an original work that continues to inspire today's cinema. Coming from one of the greatest families of the Italian aristocracy, he could have been a rich and cultured man, living in opulence and idleness, but Luchino wanted a different destiny. This is the story that director Elisabeth Kapnist and Christian Dumais-Lvowski wanted to tell. Count Visconti di Modrone wears the clothes of a legend that he never stopped shaping throughout his life. This documentary reconstructs the fabric of a brilliant life, dedicated to art; theater, opera, and cinema. This artistic work is also that of a committed man, who was a fellow traveler of the Communist Party, and who resisted fascism.

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Luchino Visconti
Self (archive footage)
Olivier Assayas
Self - Movie Director
Helmut Berger
Self (archive footage)
Maria Callas
Self (archive footage)
Claudia Cardinale
Self (archive footage)
Caterina D’Amico
Self - Visconti's Archivist
Alain Delon
Self (archive footage)
Luchino Gastel
Self - Director, Visconti's Nephew
Directed by Elisabeth Kapnist

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FR
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FR
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