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Luchino Visconti: Between Truth and Passion 2016 Directed by Elisabeth Kapnist Luchino Visconti, entre vérité et passion

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.

Country France
Production Country France
Language French
Spoken Language French
Gnere Documentary
Production Company ARTE
Release Date 15 November 2016
58 mins
Cast
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
Burt Lancaster Self (archive footage)
Anna Magnani Self (archive footage)
Silvana Mangano Self (archive footage)
Marcello Mastroianni Self (archive footage)
Francesco Rosi Self - Movie Director (archive footage)
Elisabeth Roudinesco Self - Historian
Laurence Schifano Self - Visconti's Biographer