Death in Venice

1971 • 130 minuten

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A grand-prize winner at Cannes and an Academy Award nominee, this extraordinarily beautiful Visconti ("The Damned," "Rocco and His Brothers") masterpiece is a tender story of a dying man's struggle to overcome the untimely likelihood of his death while obsessed with the love of an enchanting young man. Set in exquisitely photographed Venice. Based on a novella by Nobel Prize-winning author Thomas Mann ("The Magic Mountain," "Buddenbrooks").