US PREMIERE

SHORT FILM PROGRAM

WORLD PREMIERE

FESTIVAL SPOTLIGHT

THROWBACK FROM 

1971

Death In Venice

Morte a Venezia

Wednesday

May 23, 1984

@

7:00 pm

The Nickelodeon

Boston Premiere Gay & Lesbian Film Festival

With in person.
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Director
Luchino Visconti
Year
1971
Run Time
13
min
Country
Italy
Language
English
PROGRAM Time
minutes
CONTENT WARNING:
Composer Gustav von Aschenbach travels to Venice for health reasons. There, he becomes obsessed with the stunning beauty of an adolescent Polish boy named Tadzio who is staying with his family at the same Grand Hôtel des Bains on the Lido as Aschenbach.
This film is presented in English with English subtitles.
Luchino Visconti again with Dirk Bogarde as an aging homosexual madly in love with a teenage angel. A gay masterpiece.
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