Death in Venice

UPC: 085391103264

Studio: Warner Home Video

MPAA Rating: PG   Contains:[Adult Situations, Questionable for Children]

Summary: Based on a novel by Thomas Mann, Death in Venice stars Dirk Bogarde as a German composer who is terrified that he has lost all vestiges of humanity. While visiting Venice, Bogarde falls in love with a beautiful young boy (Bjorn Andresen). The relationship is ruined by Bogarde's obsession with the boy's youth and physical perfection; the composer realizes that the child represents an ideal that he can never match. The character played by Dirk Bogarde is evidently intended to be Gustav Mahler, whose haunting music is featured on the film's soundtrack. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Category: Drama

Awards: Best Art Direction – British Academy of Film and Television Arts Best Costume Design – British Academy of Film and Television Arts Best Picture – British Academy of Film and Television Arts Best Soundtrack – British Academy of Film and Television Arts Best Costume Design – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences 25th Anniversary Prize – Cannes Film Festival Best Picture – National Board of Review Best Cinematography – British Academy of Film and Television Arts

Features: ccVintage featurette - Visconti's Venice
A tour of Venice stills gallery
Theatrical trailer
Subtitles: English, Fran?ais & Espa?ol (feature film only)

Death in Venice

Format: Digital Video Disc (DVD)

Release Date: 08/10/2010

Audio: DD1 Dolby Digital Mono

Runtime: 131 Minutes

Sides: 1

Number of Discs: 1

Language(s) English

Subtitles: English,French,Spanish

Region: USA & territories, Canada

Chapters: Disc #1 -- Death in Venice
1. Credits [4:08]
2. Venice Arrival [4:04]
3. A Ride for Nothing [5:50]
4. Hotel Des Bains [3:38]
5. Until the Last Moment [3:43]
6. Salon Crowd [6:11]
7. A Boy and His Family [3:37]
8. Beauty's Origins [7:16]
9. On the Beach [7:11]
10. Tadzio [4:18]
11. Contaminated? [6:04]
12. Farewell Glance [3:35]
13. Trunk Mishap [3:35]
14. Family Memory [3:16]
15. Inspired [4:23]
16. No Need for Concern [4:52]
17. Esmerelda [2:25]
18. "I Love You" [1:25]
19. City of Secrets [2:35]
20. Sinister Serenade [3:33]
21. Asiatic Cholera [8:56]
22. With/Without Warning [5:28]
23. Makeover [3:04]
24. Failing Shadow [3:32]
25. Stillborn Perfection [7:15]
26. Deserted [3:26]
27. Tadzio and Jasciu Fight [4:18]
28. Death's Reach [3:14]
29. End Credits [3:13]

Wheeler Winston Dixon

Toward the middle of his life, after having worked in a series of thankless comedies for Rank, which nevertheless made him a household name in England, Dirk Bogarde struck out on his own to make a stunning series of films with American expatriate Joseph Losey, most especially The Servant (1963) and Accident (1967). While much of his earlier work had been inconsequential, these films established Bogarde at a stroke as one of England's most serious actors, and led him on a path of self-discovery that eventually wound its way to director Luchino Visconti's door. In Visconti's intensely operatic The Damned (La Caduta degli dei, 1969), Bogarde played the scion of a German munitions manufacturer in Nazi Germany to brutal effect; in 1971, he and Visconti collaborated on one of the director's most disturbing films, Death in Venice (Morte a Venezia). Loosely based on the novel by Thomas Mann, Death in Venice follows composer Gustav von Aschenbach (Bogarde) as he travels to Venice for a vacation, unaware that a mysterious plague is busily claiming the holiday makers one by one, as the management of the luxury hotel where von Aschenbach is staying stage a quiet cover-up, so that people simply "disappear" without explanation. In the midst of this unsettling situation, von Aschenbach develops an obsession with a young boy staying at the resort, Tadzio (Bjorn Andresen). Aging and well aware that the young man could have no possible interest in him other than to manipulate him for money, von Aschenbach nevertheless finds himself in the grip of a passion he cannot escape or explain, and even resorts to cosmetic measures to alter his aging countenance. But all is to no avail, and the film ends in one of the most nihilistic and hopeless final sequences in the history of cinema. Bogarde's performance is heroic and deeply sympathetic; Visconti's direction is methodical and coiled, gradually springing the trap in the film's final half-hour. A remarkable effort on all accounts, this is one of Visconti's finest films, and one of Bogarde's greatest accomplishments. ~ Wheeler Winston Dixon, Rovi

Cast and Crew: Ciro Cristofoletti  Actor 
Romolo Valli  Actor 
Masha Predit  Actor 
Franco Fabrizi  Actor 
Sergio Garafanolo  Actor 
Carole Andre  Actor 
Leslie French  Actor 
Dominique Darel  Actor 
Luigi Battaglia  Actor 
Nora Ricci  Actor 
Niccola Badalucco  Screenwriter 
Franco Mannino  Composer (Music Score) 
Luchino Visconti  Director 
Luchino Visconti  Producer 
Luchino Visconti  Screenwriter 
Dirk Bogarde  Actor 
Bjorn Andresen  Actor 
Silvana Mangano  Actor 
Marisa Berenson  Actor 
Mark Burns  Actor 

Country: France,Italy