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Death In Venice (Morte A Venezia) 130 minutes, Italy/France (1971), 15
Average user rating (4.2 / 22 votes)

Luchino Visconti's interpretation of Thomas Mann's novella. Dirk Bogarde plays the ageing composer who reassesses his life when his eyes alight on a beautiful teenage boy

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Death In Venice: Based on German writer Thomas Mann's renowned 1912 novella, Luchino Visconti's film is a stately, majestic work starring a 50-year-old Dirk Bogarde as German composer Gustav Von Aschenbach (a character some suppose to be based on Gustav Mahler, whose music provides the film's score)...
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