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Death in Venice
a.k.a. Morte a Venezia Director: Luchino Visconti Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Bjorn Andresen, Silvana Mangano, Marisa Berenson

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  • DVD Release Date: 02/17/2004
  • Original Release: 1971
  • Rating: Rated PG
  • Sales Rank: 7,664

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Behind-the-scenes featurette: "Visconti's Venice"; "Tour of Venice" photo gallery; theatrical trailer.

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Side #1 --
1. Credits [4:08]
2. Venice Arrival [4:04]
3. A Ride for Nothing [5:50]
4. Hotel des Bains [3:38]
5. Until the Last Moment [3:43]
6. Salon Crowd [6:11]
7. A Boy and His Family [3:37]
8. Beauty's Origins [7:16]
9. On the Beach [7:11]
10. Tadzio [4:18]
11. Contaminated? [6:04]
12. Farewell Glance [3:35]
13. Trunk Mishap [3:35]
14. Family Memory [3:16]
15. Inspired [4:23]
16. No Need for Concern [4:52]
17. Esmerelda [2:25]
18. "I Love You" [1:25]
19. City of Secrets [2:35]
20. Sinister Serenade [3:33]
21. Asiatic Cholera [8:56]
22. With/Without Warning [5:28]
23. Makeover [3:04]
24. Failing Shadow [3:32]
25. Stillborn Perfection [7:15]
26. Deserted [3:26]
27. Tadzio and Jasciu Fight [4:18]
28. Death's Reach [3:14]
29. End Credits [3:13]

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Editorial Reviews

Based on a novel by Thomas Mann, Death in Venice stars Dirk Bogarde as a German composer who is terrified that he has lost all vestiges of humanity. While visiting Venice, Bogarde falls in love with a beautiful young boy (Bjorn Andresen). The relationship is ruined by Bogarde's obsession with the boy's youth and physical perfection; the composer realizes that the child represents an ideal that he can never match. The character played by Dirk Bogarde is evidently intended to be Gustav Mahler, whose haunting music is featured on the film's soundtrack. Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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April 02, 2004: Visconti's interpretation of Thomas Mann's Death in Venice is a triumphant masterpiece spot-lighting the intellectual pursuit of beauty through the metaphor of an older man admiring a young man. To the base, some will say this is a piece of homoerotic literature better written for a sophiscated wit, while to the cultivated mind, it celebrates the love of purity, chase and innocence. Aschenbach's admiration for Tadziu is as old as Civilization and new as next fall fashion. For beauty is an event prefixed upon rising above the senses in which true appreciation can be attained. The movie remains worthy of its accolades.