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Death in Venice (original italian title: Morte a Venezia) is a 1971 Italian-French drama
film directed by Luchino Visconti and starring Dirk Bograde and Björn Andrésen.
It is based on the novella Death in Venice, first published in 1912 as Der Tod in Venedig by the German author Thomas Mann.
Summary of "Death in Venice"
The protagonist of Death in Venice is the reputable, fifty-three-year-old writer Gustav Aschenbach, a member of the upper-middle class. Aschenbach writes under a very strict schedule, working every morning for a set amount of time, but he has recently been troubled by a lack of creativity. While walking by a cemetery to the north of Munich, he sees a strange man and has a vision of a jungle. This vision causes Aschenbach to temporarily forgo his tightly scheduled life, and he decides to travel south. Aschenbach’s journey takes him to Venice, where, after a ride with a rogue gondolier, he checks into his hotel. It is here that he encounters a beautiful Polish boy named Tadzio. Over time he becomes more and more enamored of the young man, eventually abandoning all discipline and reason in the face of his infatuation. Despite discovering that there has been an outbreak of cholera, Aschenbach makes only a half-hearted attempt to leave the city before deciding to stay in Venice and continue devoting his time to watching Tadzio. His infatuation, which never leads to physical intimacy, causes him to follow the boy’s every move, and this pursuit has an effect on Aschenbach’s art--his previous writer’s block disappears and he is able to write freely once again. One night, Aschenbach dreams of "the stranger-god" surrounded by a crowd of dancing, howling, torch-bearing humans dressed in animal skins while worshiping the god. The worshippers fly into a frenzy around a huge wooden symbol, which Aschenbach realizes to be himself. One day Aschenbach trails Tadzio into the city and after losing track of the boy, eats some strawberries purchased from a street vendor. Later, while watching Tadzio at the beach, Aschenbach loses consciousness and dies, apparently from cholera that contaminated the strawberries. The world reacts to the death of this highly regarded author with shock and mourning.
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Information:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067445/plotsummary?ref_=tt_ov_pl
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_in_Venice_(film)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pxn49yWVJk
http://modernism.research.yale.edu/wiki/index.php/Death_in_Venice
Death in Venice (original italian title: Morte a Venezia) is a 1971 Italian-French drama
film directed by Luchino Visconti and starring Dirk Bograde and Björn Andrésen.
It is based on the novella Death in Venice, first published in 1912 as Der Tod in Venedig by the German author Thomas Mann.
Summary of "Death in Venice"
The protagonist of Death in Venice is the reputable, fifty-three-year-old writer Gustav Aschenbach, a member of the upper-middle class. Aschenbach writes under a very strict schedule, working every morning for a set amount of time, but he has recently been troubled by a lack of creativity. While walking by a cemetery to the north of Munich, he sees a strange man and has a vision of a jungle. This vision causes Aschenbach to temporarily forgo his tightly scheduled life, and he decides to travel south. Aschenbach’s journey takes him to Venice, where, after a ride with a rogue gondolier, he checks into his hotel. It is here that he encounters a beautiful Polish boy named Tadzio. Over time he becomes more and more enamored of the young man, eventually abandoning all discipline and reason in the face of his infatuation. Despite discovering that there has been an outbreak of cholera, Aschenbach makes only a half-hearted attempt to leave the city before deciding to stay in Venice and continue devoting his time to watching Tadzio. His infatuation, which never leads to physical intimacy, causes him to follow the boy’s every move, and this pursuit has an effect on Aschenbach’s art--his previous writer’s block disappears and he is able to write freely once again. One night, Aschenbach dreams of "the stranger-god" surrounded by a crowd of dancing, howling, torch-bearing humans dressed in animal skins while worshiping the god. The worshippers fly into a frenzy around a huge wooden symbol, which Aschenbach realizes to be himself. One day Aschenbach trails Tadzio into the city and after losing track of the boy, eats some strawberries purchased from a street vendor. Later, while watching Tadzio at the beach, Aschenbach loses consciousness and dies, apparently from cholera that contaminated the strawberries. The world reacts to the death of this highly regarded author with shock and mourning.
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Information:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067445/plotsummary?ref_=tt_ov_pl
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_in_Venice_(film)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pxn49yWVJk
http://modernism.research.yale.edu/wiki/index.php/Death_in_Venice
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