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Luchino Visconti: Between Truth and Passion (2016)
Directed by Elisabeth Kapnist
Overview
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.
Length 58 minutes
Actors
Luchino Visconti | Olivier Assayas | Helmut Berger | María Callas | Claudia Cardinale | Caterina D’Amico | Alain Delon | Luchino Gastel | Burt Lancaster | Anna Magnani | Silvana Mangano | Marcello Mastroianni | Francesco Rosi | Elisabeth Roudinesco | Laurence Schifano