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Luchino Visconti: Between Truth and Passion

Luchino Visconti: Between Truth and Passion

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Status

Released

Release Date

Nov 15, 2016

Runtime

0h 58m

Genres

Documentary

User Score

10%

Original Title

Luchino Visconti, entre vérité et passion

Production Companies

ARTE

Director

Elisabeth Kapnist

Description

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.