Death in Venice (1971)
AKA: Morte a Venezia
Directed by: Luchino Visconti
Starring: Dirk Bogarde (Gustav von Aschenbach), Björn Andresen (Tadzio), Silvana Mangano (Tadzio’s mother), Mark Burns (Alfred), Marisa Berenson (Gustav’s wife), Carole André (Prostitute)
Country: Italy; Effed Up European Cinema
Language: English, Italian (Eng Subs); Effed Up Italian Films
Runtime: 02:10:51
Genres: Old-Young Relationships, Gay, Voyeur-Stalking
Plot – Spoilers:
Based on the Thomas Mann novel that came before Nabokov’s Lolita.
A renowned conductor, Gustav, travels to Venice for a much-needed vacation. He’s aware of his socially-bestowed superiority and expresses this while dealing with anyone that serves him and who often exhaust him by their very presence. Otherwise, Gustav is a slightly nervous, sad and unhealthy-looking man, for whom peace seems eternally elusive. All of his work that earned him fame has been rooted in the constant conflict he sees in defining and understanding beauty and art – is it always natural or can an artist conjure beauty seemingly from nothing.
Venice is peaking with tourists at this time, but one of them particularly catches Gustav’s attention at the hotel. A young 14-15 year-old aristocratic boy, Tadzio, staying there with his mother and sisters. The boy arouses feelings in Gustav that he then tries to convince himself are merely his recognition of perfect beauty appearing before him, that just so happen to have manifested as a young boy. In time, Gustav begins to believe that Tadzio is aware and encouraging of his interest. An interest that turns obsessive as Gustav starts stalking the boy around town, who in turn often strikes poses that hark back to the greatest Greek and Roman sculptures. To Gustav, this comparison is deathly real – the most he desires physically from Tadzio, he is convinced, is to stroke his hair, yet the boy remains unattainable and incapable of response, just like a cold stone sculpture.
A documentary on the actor that played Tadzio, The Most Beautiful Boy In The World was made in 2021.
kind of assumed it’d been uploaded already… maybe i’ll give it a second go now that it’s here, fell asleep the first time i tried watching it haha
hella weird and boring 😭
if analchildmolester is banned then NSDAP should be – petition starts here
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“When we add all our allies and those who fight on our side together, Romanians, Hungarians, Croats, and Slovenes, and especially in the North, the Finns, and then the Spaniards, and of course our Germanic Divisions of the Waffen-ϟϟ, and independent nations own ϟϟ-Divisions. When we add all of those together, then we can truly say today has really become a European Crusade. It is truly Europe that has gathered together here.”
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faggot admin are being controlled by steve to delete my messages
Must suck being a frustrated pedo .all they think about is diddling young boys ..eventually you snap and do something that gets you lynched and/or castrated
I’ve been waiting for this one for far too long
the comparison to lolita is brilliant and very apt, i like the cinematography and music and sound engineering.strange to see how much money used to go in to pedo coping media
Pedo movie. Made for Steve, the pre-teen ass eater.
Great to have you back, Admin! But why mention that ‘Der Tod in Venedig’ (1911) was published before Nabokov’s ‘Lolita’ (1955)? These works of literature have nothing in common whatsoever.
As a case in point: Visconti’s film is not bad and does justice to the novella; all attempts to film Nabokov’s novel have failed, the novel (one of the best ever written, and one that makes fun of Thomas Mann!) being too ambiguous.