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Death in Venice, Warner Bros. Pictures ; a film produced and directed by Luchino Visconti for Alfa Cinematografica ; from the novel by Thomas Mann ; screenplay by Luchino Visconti and Nicola Badalucco

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MPAA Rating: Rated PG-13

Death in Venice

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Warner Bros. Pictures ; a film produced and directed by Luchino Visconti for Alfa Cinematografica ; from the novel by Thomas Mann ; screenplay by Luchino Visconti and Nicola Badalucco

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Composer Gustav von Aschenbach takes a convalescent holiday at the Venice Lido after the death of his child and the disastrous reception of his new compositions. Bored, he indulges an idle, whimsical, faintly epicurean interest in a beautiful boy sporting on the beach. The boy represents an ideal of perfect physical beauty; his youth and naturalness reproach Aschenbach's vanity and creative sterility. The onset of a deadly pestilence resolves his infatuation, as corruption eventually compromises all ideals

Credits -- Venice arrival -- A ride for nothing -- Hotel des Bains -- Until the last moment -- Salon crowd -- A boy and his family -- Beauty's origins -- On the beach -- Tadzio -- Contaminated? -- Farewell glance -- Trunk mishap -- Family memory -- Inspired -- No need for concern -- Esmerelda -- "I love you." -- City of secrets -- Sinister serenade -- Asiatic cholera -- With/without warning -- Makeover -- Failing shadow -- Stillborn perfection -- Deserted -- Tadzio and Jasciu fight -- Death's reach -- End credits

live action