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Death in Venice (German: Der Tod in Venedig) is a novella by German author Thomas Mann, published in 1912. It presents an ennobled writer who visits Venice and is liberated, uplifted, and then increasingly obsessed by the sight of a boy in a family of Polish tourists—Tadzio, so nicknamed for Tadeusz.
- Thomas Mann
- 1912
Death in Venice (Italian: Morte a Venezia) is a 1971 historical drama film directed and produced by Italian filmmaker Luchino Visconti, and adapted by Visconti and Nicola Badalucco from the 1912 novella of the same name by German author Thomas Mann.
Jun 1, 1971 · A sickly composer becomes obsessed with a young boy in Venice, where a deadly plague looms. IMDb provides cast and crew, user and critic reviews, trivia, goofs, quotes, and more for this Oscar-nominated drama.
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- Drama, Romance
- Luchino Visconti
- 1971-06-01
Learn everything about Thomas Mann's novella Death in Venice, a modernist masterpiece inspired by his own trip to Venice. Find summaries, analysis, themes, quotes, characters, symbols, and more.
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Death in Venice. Based on the classic novella by Thomas Mann, this late-career masterpiece from Luchino Visconti is a meditation on the nature of art, the allure of beauty, and the inescapability of death.
Roger Ebert criticizes Visconti's adaptation of Thomas Mann's novel for its lack of ambiguity and subtlety. He praises the film's visual beauty and the plague-stricken Venice, but regrets the simplification of the homosexual love story.
