Luchino Visconti: Between Truth and Passion (2016)

Plot Summary

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.

Full Cast & Characters

Luchino Visconti

Self (archive footage)

Olivier Assayas

Self - Movie Director

Helmut Berger

Self (archive footage)

Maria Callas

Self (archive footage)

Claude 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)

Director & Crew

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