Luchino Visconti: Between Truth and Passion

Luchino Visconti: Between Truth and Passion (2016)

Documentary

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.

Director: Elisabeth Kapnist

Casts

	Luchino Visconti as Self (archive footage)
	Olivier Assayas as Self - Movie Director
	Helmut Berger as Self (archive footage)
	Maria Callas as Self (archive footage)
	Claudia Cardinale as Self (archive footage)
	Caterina D’Amico as Self - Visconti's Archivist
	Alain Delon as Self (archive footage)
	Luchino Gastel as Self - Director, Visconti's Nephew
	Burt Lancaster as Self (archive footage)
	Anna Magnani as Self (archive footage)
	Silvana Mangano as Self (archive footage)
	Marcello Mastroianni as Self (archive footage)
	Francesco Rosi as Self - Movie Director (archive footage)
	Elisabeth Roudinesco as Self - Historian
	Laurence Schifano as Self - Visconti's Biographer

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