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Luchino Visconti
Luchino Visconti di Modrone, Count of Lonate Pozzolo was an Italian filmmaker, theatre and opera director, and screenwriter. He was one of the fathers of cinematic neorealism but later moved towards luxurious, sweeping epics dealing with themes of beauty, decadence, death, and European history, especially the decay of the nobility and the bourgeoisie. Critic Jonathan Jones wrote that "no one did a…
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entertainment · Italian theatre, opera, and cinema director (1906-1976) · theatre director · film director · screenwriter · writer · director · author · theatre designer · opera director · film screenwriter · librettist · also Luchino Visconti, Luchino Visconti, conte di Modorone, Don Luchino Visconti di Modrone, Conte di Lonate Pozzolo, Visconti
Born 2 November 1906 · Died 17 March 1976 · Q13888
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1976· 2 entries
In Sant'Ignazio di Loyola in Campo Marzio in Rome
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Died 1976-03-17.
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1973· 1 entry
And Conversation Piece in 1974, along with Burt Lancaster
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1971· 1 entry
"I am a Catholic, I was born a Catholic, I was baptized a Catholic
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1966· 1 entry
Visconti's luscious Falstaff for the Vienna State Opera conducted by Leonard Bernstein was critically acclaimed
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1965· 1 entry
Won Golden Lion (1965).
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1963· 1 entry
Awarded Palme d'Or (1963).
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1961· 1 entry
Was a member of the jury at the 2nd Moscow International Film Festival
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1960· 1 entry
Awarded Grand Jury Prize of the Venice Film Festival (1960).
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1958· 1 entry
And a famous black-and-white Il trovatore with scenery and costumes by Filippo Sanjust at the Royal Opera House in 1964
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1957· 1 entry
Earned Silver Lion (1957).
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1955· 1 entry
With Maria Callas and an equally famous Anna Bolena (also at La Scala) in 1957 with Callas
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1948· 1 entry
Wrote and directed La terra trema (The Earth Trembles), based on the novel I Malavoglia by Giovanni Verga
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1906· 1 entry
Born 1906-11-02.
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