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Death in Venice (German: Der Tod in Venedig) is a novella by German author Thomas Mann, published in 1912. It presents an ennobled writer who visits Venice and is liberated, uplifted, and then increasingly obsessed by the sight of a boy in a family of Polish tourists—Tadzio, so nicknamed for Tadeusz.
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.
Jun 1, 1971 · A sickly composer becomes obsessed with a young boy in Venice, where a deadly plague looms. IMDb provides cast and crew, user and critic reviews, trivia, goofs, quotes, and more for this Oscar-nominated drama.
Dirk Bogarde plays enigmatic composer Aschenbach visiting 1890 Venice--only to find threads of futility in his poignant unrequited search for ideal beauty. Painterly Manet-like portraiture of vacationers in this cinematic gem by Italian director Luchino Visconti, drenched in Mahler symphonic music.
Death in Venice. Based on the classic novella by Thomas Mann, this late-career masterpiece from Luchino Visconti is a meditation on the nature of art, the allure of beauty, and the inescapability of death.
Roger Ebert criticizes Visconti's adaptation of Thomas Mann's novel for its lack of ambiguity and subtlety. He praises the film's visual beauty and the plague-stricken Venice, but regrets the simplification of the homosexual love story.
Death in Venice, novella by Thomas Mann, published in German as Der Tod in Venedig in 1912. A symbol-laden story of aestheticism and decadence, Mann’s best-known novella exemplifies the author’s regard for Sigmund Freud’s writings on the unconscious.
