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Death in Venice (1971) Morte a Venezia (original title) VARIOUS DESCRIPTIONS: Death in Venice is a 1971 Italian-French drama film. It features Dirk Bogarde and Björn Andrésen. Haunting adaptation of Thomas Mann's classic about a composer, paralysed by ennui and repressed emotion, who discovers a last vestige of beauty and emotion during a visit to Venice at the turn of the century. Believing himself lost to the muse, he becomes obsessed by a beautiful young boy holidaying with his mother in the city. In this adaptation of the Thomas Mann novel, a few years before the outbreak of the Great War, avant-garde composer Gustave Aschenbach (loosely based on Gustav Mahler) travels to a Venetian seaside resort in search of repose after a period of artistic and personal stress. But he finds no peace there, for he soon develops a troubling attraction to an adolescent boy, Tadzio, on vacation with his family. The boy embodies an ideal of beauty that Aschenbach has long sought and he becomes infatuated. However, the onset of a deadly pestilence threatens them both physically and represents the corruption that compromises and threatens all ideals. Awards 1971: Nominated for Oscar: Best Costume Design 1971: Cannes Film Festival: Nominated for Palme d'Or (Best Film) 1971: BAFTA: 4 awards: Soundtrack, Art Direction, Cinematography and Costume Design 1970: David di Donatello Awards: Best Director 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. A fastidious composer reeling from a disastrous concert, Gustav von Aschenbach (Dirk Bogarde, in an exquisitely nuanced performance) travels to Venice to recover. There, he is struck by a vision of pure beauty in the form of a young boy named Tadzio (Björn Andrésen), his infatuation developing into an obsession even as rumours of a plague spread through the city. Setting Mann’s story of desire and bodily decay against the sublime music of Gustav Mahler, Death in Venice is one of cinema’s most exalted literary adaptations, as sensually rich as it is allegorically resonant. WATCH ONLINE: (Supposedly "restored" version--seems improved) https://m.ok.ru/video/2299217644238 1080p OR: https://m.ok.ru/video/6710255749794 1080p OR: https://m.ok.ru/video/1723867007686 720p **SPECIAL FOR BOYCHAT BOYLOVERS!** Benjamin Britton's operatic version! 720p (English with Spanish subs) https://m.ok.ru/video/988507408973 Several other versions (other languages, etc.) available through the following search: https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-e&sca_esv=14507766f32efae7&udm=7&q=site:ok.ru+%22Death+in+Venice%22&sa=X Take your pick of the above, and enjoy "the most beautiful boy in the world"! M. Actually, he's a bit too tall for me, but I wouldn't kick him out of bed! Would you? Death in Venice 1080p (Supposedly "restored" version--seems improved) https://m.ok.ru/video/2299217644238 [@nonymouse] [Guardster] [Proxify] [Anonymisierungsdienst]  |