Film

Luchino Visconti: Between Truth and Passion

2016 · 58m · Documentary

IMDb

6.8

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.

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

• Elisabeth KapnistDirector · Writer
• Christian Dumais-LvowskiWriter
• Christiane GrazianiProducer
• François DuplatExecutive Producer
• Francesca MelaniEditor

Release date

November 15, 2016

Status

Released

Original language

French

Runtime

58m

Genres

Documentary