1971 Death in Venice - Trailer

[Harrier997]

Film o facecie w łódce

[IYAMNI]

Bjorn is beautiful and gives a wonderfully subtle performance, but the film is really about Aschenbach and Bogarde's amazing portrayal of the character tends to be eclipsed by Tadzio. Like the scene when Bogares's luggage gets lost and he berates the handler, then smiles knowing he'll be seeing Tadzio again. The whole segment is so well done. And the scene where he falls in the plaza and begins to laugh at his folly, that always bring tears to my eyes. As well as the tragic conclusion.

[ilovecollecting]

Is that really a boy!?? Looks like a girl! Just can't understand why some men are so attracted to boys that look like girls... YUK! I like mature GUYS!  Give me a nice 50 - 60 year old any day. Now that's what I call NICE! Mmmm....

[malvip]

@ilovecollecting And you will never understand anything

[prettyb0y1992]

I don't think he looks like a chick, he just needs a haircut!

[adsweaty]

has anybody hear ever seen the anime monster? bjorn Anderson reminds me of johan im so freaking serious the way he carrys himself the way he looks everything

[Cineczek1500100900]

Mam nowy zajebisty film...Śmierć w Wenecji, nieźle brzmi co??

[KillBabyKillfy]

@Cineczek1500100900 najpierw obejrzyj ten film, bo to zupelnie inna liga co jakies polskie komedie, cos pieknego

[LittleBabyWheeler]

This has to be one of the most beautifully depressing movies I've ever seen.

[anniemihn]

Bjorn is not only hauntingly beautiful. He has an incredible elegance, an aristocratic coolness and a stunning chrisma. Brilliant performance by this 15 years old boy. He is a LEGEND.

[imafuckinglunatic]

you may think whatever you want of this movie, but who dares to make another version of this novel? nobody yet.

[mari5london]

This is such a mesmerizingly beautiful film, with its music, images and the boy...I even visited the island to experience the ambience and so excited to see the small bathhouses lined in the shore as they were in the film. Venice and (the island) looked so unreal.

[wskfan]

Today the film in Germany broadcast by BR-TV.

May, 21, 2011

[numo8976]

Oh my goodness, if they dressed Bjorn Andresen in women's clothing, I wouldn't be able to say that he was, in fact, a he. He is so beautiful *_*

[ojideagu]

@numo8976 Most pre pubescent boys look like girls until they hit puberty. He just looks like a girl with a penis.

[ElisabethPrincess]

tadzio is really like a perfect Godd!!!!

[megaswenson]

Just watched the whole film (In Italian), upon someone's recommendation, & it seemed less erotic to me than the story of someone on the verge of death, yearning for Life & Youth (Embodied by Tadzio). I think the Brothel scene clarifies for us (& for the Protagonist) that Sex is not the primary desire of the Protagonist. Instead, he is seeing his youthful SELF: almost as one sees his own body during an Astral Projection. Seeing Tadzio defeated on the beach, he sees HIMSELF defeated by death.

[funfabmegan]

A masterpeice for homos..and freaks!!

[ilsorrisodiThor]

UNO DE LOS MEJORES FILMS DE TODA LA HISTORIA DEL CINE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[cbgmf]

The perfect Anne Rice's Armand!

[melodi061]

paedophile?

[Lunarwill]

@melodi061 moron?

[melodi061]

@Lunarwill good film, good book. but it is paedophile. i did not feel any pain when he died. 

[oRISHI12]

@melodi061 is he a pedophile? may be a stalker, but not more than that

[zloidz]

@oRISHI12 he's a lover, no more no less

[StellaCadente271]

Master Achievement

[sfkcbf]

Despite the homoerotic elements of Mann's novella and especially Visconti's film, the story is much more than that. Mann wrote on many levels simultaneously. Some higher levels are particularly sophisticated and require a broad education and specific knowledge of his times and language (more recent translations are better than the old.) Mann's actual experience in Venice: "Tadzio" was Wladyslaw Moes, and the friend was Janek Fudakowska. Wladzio read the book in 1923 and recognized himself.

[waterlookingbungalow]

waterlookingbungalow

Tadzio, come la Nike di Samotracia, RESTA nell' immaginario collettivo

la bellezza dell' attore quindicenne, inevitabilmente, ha ceduto il passo

mi fa tenerezza pensare al carico che l' UOMO Bjorn dev'essersi trascinato nel tempo..almeno fino all'esternazione di quello sfacciato invito, da parte dell'accolita di vecchie kekke, a fare un giro di valzer nel gay bar

d'altronde, l' Arte non è la Vita

e persino il buon Chaplin tiranneggiava sadicamente figli & servitori

[fitobcnfito]

What an awesome beautifull movie.

What a shitty trailer O.o!

[liquidplastic62]

Some films have all the attributes of a masterpiece. Like the planets all in perfect alignment with the sun. This film has so many layers; pathos, joy, tragedy, angst, emotion, dereliction and revelation. Sheer poetry on celuloid.

[sofokles96]

Back then when trailers weren't all annoying... THIS YEAR...NEW ADVENTURE...GET READY...COMMING SOON... even good movies seem disgusting when they advertise them this way... sh*t ;]

[Adamus991]

" .. a na koniec puszczasz nam film o facecie w łódce .." xD

[MauriceOlive]

@Adamus991 yhm - chlopaki nie płaczą :)

[sofokles96]

@Adamus991 spoko jeszcze się rozkręci

[hayamatsuka]

GOD i thought he was a girl, so pretty.



[gfks11]

Cherie...thank you for sharing...don't wonder you are not happy by watching this... is is very dark and sad....but a masterpiece by Visconti...

Kiss...Judie

[goPistons06]

does anyone know what the song is at the beginning?

thanks

[bleumelody1812]

@goPistons06 Gustav Mahler's Symphony 5 adagio

[meatisdeliciouse]

Why don't cities shoot thei bloody pigions i HATE pigions, featherd rats 2:12 I want a flame thrower I HATE pigions. Pigions sh** every where and carry desises. I blood hate bloody pigions. I want to sea a desiese to wipe out all pigions seaguls and rats.

[bochcikov]

spokojnie, zaraz się rozkręci...

[Sneezlebob]

You know the plot of this movie would make for a great psychological horror movie. An old pedophile stalks a young boy while his family vacations NOTHING WILL STOP HIS LUST.

[sweetcandy592]

@Sneezlebob why do people disagree with this film comcrnng the old man tantilzed over this boys beauty . if man behaved like this to their child would they accept it i know i wouldnt

[Sneezlebob]

@sweetcandy592 I'm not sure what you're saying because it's worded so weirdly but all I know is the main character is a pedophile

[sweetcandy592]

@Sneezlebob hello i was saying some people on here dont agree that this man was lusting after this boy ... i do agree with you.. i had experienced somthing like that after coming home from school last year :( ok bye bye lol :)

[Sneezlebob]

@sweetcandy592 ummm ok?

[sam0xin]

0:19 two artists combine ... what about MAHLER ...?

[rellama1]

the coming out of Thomas Mann, first literary paedophile of his age, but he calls it infatuation,

[rellama1]

wouldnt you like to know...

[schwebebahnable]

Tadzio is supposed to be a VISION. This Bjorn fool looks like a long-faced collie dog.

[sweetcandy592]

im 15 year old and female. i saw this film 2weeks ago on sky.. i dont understand i need some one to tell meeeee . is the old man gay and the boy too? or is the old man obesses by the boys beauty ? this film is funny i was screaming with embarrassment for them both lol they should have put a 15 year old mediterranean..beautyful girl to play the part instead of that boy who looks like that spanish football player who is a striker for liverpool fc. i forgot his name lol

[OlHa1972]

@sweetcandy592

what about to read Thomas Mann`s novele Death in Venice? May be you could understand then,)

[sweetcandy592]

@OlHa1972 i will try to read the book. but tell me in the film that old man he became obessed and tantilized by the boys beauty why did he stalk the boy one time.?? if you had a child would you like a grow man to behave like this to your child ? im not putting the film down its the way i saw it.. because last year in june i experenced sometime like this with his man i didnt know as i was coming home from school on the bus walking alone he street .

[OlHa1972]

@sweetcandy592

No, I would not! I have 2 children. And I hate Lolita by Nabokov f.ex.!

But this history is just a metaphor, about a man who looked about the beauty all his life, tryed to express it in his work, and finally found it in this boy! Gustav von Aschenbach is not a pedofil in the book, he was married and had a child. If you been stalked by one sic man, its another case. You can read something ABOUT book too.

[sweetcandy592]

@OlHa1972 ok was this a true story ?? also i didnt understand your other message ??? why was the boy pointing to the sky ?? did he kill himself ?? sorry 4being such a pane lol... i will read the book but frist i need to understand some parts in this film too :) the right word 4 it is the man became obssessed with the boys beauty thats what i read in one of the tv guilds when it was shown on sky movies in june lol..

[OlHa1972]

@sweetcandy592

If you such interested in this story- google Death in Venice! Or you can find page on Facebook about the writer and the book- with same name btw.

The boy didnt kill him self lol. all that thing with pointing to the sky - its hallucination of this dying man, its not real.

[sweetcandy592]

@OlHa1972 Hello its candy agian lol..that word you used " hallucination" so that boy knew that man was very ill and dieing ??? did he know for give me 4 mesagng u about this movie i need 2 understand the film. im only 15 lol ..but i will check out the book and google it..im very interested in this movie cause i find it hard to understand some parts lol.. yourmy teacher haha x

[sweetcandy592]

@OlHa1972 i in the ending of the film why did the boy point out to the sky ? did he kill himself too ??

[OlHa1972]

@sweetcandy592

:)) No, all this thing with pointing and all happened in the had of dying man, its not really.

[jopeon]

@sweetcandy592 i would'nt say he is gay just taken back by the boy , like if you met someone in the street so magnificent to you, your heart stops yet you dont know what the attraction is at first but they occupy your every thought, its kinda like that

and the boy's apperance etc grows into an obsession whch is why when colera strikes he stays with him and dies tragically as a result

have read some of the book but not seen the film but know the jist of it

[Leninvoktatiabre]

"I was only 16 when directed by Luchino Visconti and his team took me in a gay club. Almost all of them were gay. Because of visitors, I felt terribly uncomfortable. They openly stared at me as if I had the delicious meat a delicacy. I knew that I could not respond. That would be social suicide ", - says Andersen. On a wave of hysteria in the press a young man went to homosexual contacts, but realized that it - not for him.

[goback3spaces]

Saw this movie many years ago in college. It was so slow I almost put a bullet in my head while watching it. But I think I ought to give it a second try. The trailer is beguiling, and I wonder what I would think about the movie today.

[Hexachloraphine]

I love this film, but it is not without it's faults, also, I cannot quite figure this firm out,. it is quite done in, and quite weird in places, and should have kept the main character as a writer, but still used gustav mahlers music, in my opinion.

[rellama1]

stupid movie

[sethscoot32]

@rellama1 how old are you?

[julileaf]

Bjorn has the face of an angel. His face should be decorating the walls of the Louvre Museum.

[brzeszczot90]

film o facecie w lodce :D

[klutrusty]

der Film ist voll scheisse

[chrystalballs]

i have watched this film 4 times and now will watch again..

[missbabyice]

i thought he was going to say something else when he said masterpiece. Mar-ster; ma-ster is confusing

[maudeflorencese]

I think you can download it n online @ MOOV ZON ,COM Google the above link

[baccioba]

when Italian directors were the greatest in the world

[TheIDELFONSO]

En vez de ver chingaderas de EEUU vean peliculas como esta, lástima que no exista otro Visconti para que ponga n su lugar a los pendejos disque cineastas

[carfogo1946]

Personalmente la Mejor Pelìcula en muchos años.Comparto la opiniòn de uno de los ùltimos Ministros de Cultura de mi Paìs que la cataloga como la Mejor Pelìcula vista por èl.

[marvircos]

Wonderful film! Incredible good!!! It´s a work of art.

[ThoughtTraveler]

I do not know. I had to read this book in college. I suppose there is a fine line between pedophilia and obsession with the "Platonic" ideal of love.

Leering after a young boy is rather a odd premise for a book.

[bookkeeper57]

Bingo: that's the whole point of this film, and book on which its based.

[Gehenna212]

I saw the movie 3 years ago and I liked it a lot: the music, the landscapes, the customs, etc.

However, at first I thought (because of the obsession of Gustav von Aschenbach with the boy) that it was related with homosexuality instead of the idea of the Platonic ideal of beauty.

After I read the book, and I must say that the film was really well adapted considering the complexity of the character and the way he feels all what surrounds him.

Superb final scene.

Masterpiece, no doubt.

[PeterFirthFan]

He was a good paedophile.

[ThoughtTraveler]

It is Hannibal Lechter going for some boy liver with farva beans for dinner in Venice LOL

[PaulDougouba]

I was forced to read this book in college.

I found the whole premise disturbing but realistic. There are men who probably leer and drool over young boys like this. It is called Ephebophilia.

I suppose Anthony Hopkins character had long suppressed homo erotic desires that were awakened by the sight of this young boy.

I found that the ideal youth here as a blond Nordic type rather offensive as well.

[dankerer]

People like you probably shouldn't be reading this sort of literature anyway ..but that's just my opinion.

[dankerer]

I didn't mean anything racist by that, btw. If you don't appreciate this sort of art, why care?

[ainhoator]

Dear boy, it is not Anthony Hopkins but Dirk Bogarde. And if you had read the book carefully and taken the pains of watching the movie, you would find out there's more to both than mere ephebophilia.

Now, don't be shocked by the fact Tadzio is blond: Thomas Mann, had both Goethe and his own quite repressed ephebophilic preferences in mind...and he turned out to yield towards the nordic type (he had some problems with race and meridionals in general).

[YukiKyoHaruLover]

i laughed. I enjoyed their sexual tension, oh yes.

[igi2video11380]

this is completely boring

[JipsyTipsy]

the movie is so fuckin boring...

[youggoth]

film fenomenale...................

[airmiami]

Dude is a pedophile.

[myfilmblog]

in my top 10 ever!

[MarysNeighbor]

this is such a beautiful film..

and bjorn andersen is sooooo handsome...

[lee2710]

NO! it is a disturbing Film!

Bjorn Andresen is today a jazz music player

[dobrorodnaya]

i really wanna see it is it all online?

please tell me as soon as posible

[kondi192]

A więc jednak prawdę mówił Fred że jest to FILM O FACECIE W ŁÓDCE xDDDDDDDDDDDDD

[Whyolin]

not two great artists combined

3 - threeeeeeeeeeeee artists combined.

Without Gustav Mahler the movie would be

half a job.

[sethscoot32]

not "half a job" but definetely wouldn't be the same.

[Bolinas1971]

aye, yae don' huff tae tell me-

its wone fair the feckin aert croud

poonces and poplars the lot!

[marcobagut]

are you writing in dutch?

[jamesaellis]

ive must see this. the gay undertones really appeal as well as the mahler

[bigipiki]

1970年代の名作 ベスト ５:ヨーロッパ編　第１位：『ベニスに死す』　Death in Venice／A Swedish Love Story　1971年／イタリア＝フランス映画　上映時間：131分　監督：ルキノ・ヴィスコンティ　出演：ダーク・ボガード、ビヨルン・アンデルセン、シルヴァーナ­・マンガーノ、ロモロ・ヴァリ

[mapaz555]

great film, it's beautiful, hypnotizing, haunting, stays with you forever.

[bitchiteen]

what a beautiful boy

[lolzrnblegend]

gorski74 is right! the symbolism is clear! the boy is a pure example of youth!

he is small and thin and has a beautiful face with an elegant look on him!

[punkk4u]

i love this film , i,cried,,,love ..... from cuba

[nicholashenton]

evil from thomas mann; not that anyone needed to be told he was evil. he describes an diabolical sounding dream at the end aschenbach has which is descriptive of the same thing you hear in crowley, or in satanism, or whatever...

[quartercherries]

Please tell me English is your fourth language. If this were so, you wouldn't seem a complete idiot to me.

[nikoroo]

Lol... its disturbing that though his accent is probably of a Northern cockney origin.. he chooses to type phonetically...

translation for below:

"Aye, you dont have to tell me...

if it werent for the fucking art crowd -

ponces and poplars the lot..."

[Isolar]

A truly beautiful film.

[Luke19Wales]

i think bjorn andresen would have been perfect to play the vampire armand from anne rice's novel :)

[FinlayO]

That's exactly what I thought! With slightly more auburn hair, he would be absolutely perfect.

[goback3spaces]

@Luke19Wales I would like to see him play Robin in a European art-film version of BATMAN.

[honeeybuns]

@Luke19Wales OH MY GOD!

i totally agree with you!

[XxTearsinHeavenx]

@Luke19Wales oh yes i know if the movie has been made in1971

[genia106]

@Luke19Wales

Oh My God! YES... YOU are BRILLIANT!!!!

[KairiHawkeye]

@Luke19Wales How I agree

[SalmonChateaubriand]

I think this is the most beautiful film I have ever seen. Closely followed by 'Tous les matins du monde'.

[LeViolonDeLaMort]

I Adore it,

Tadzio is just great

[mmimtc]

GREAT FILM!

[BucuProductions]

Chłopaki!! Mam nowy zajebisty film!!! Śmierc w Wenecji!!

hahahaha

[gorski74]

ale glupi! do you think this movie is about homosexuals? you should read som more boy.

[BucuProductions]

Hahahahahahahahahaha to Ty jestes głupi bo nie skminiłeś akcji hahaha oglądałeś ''chłopaki nie płaczą?'' to był ten niby gangster co tak powiedział? Whats with the homo shit? O_o?

[sarcasm0verlord]

the main character is in love with a teenage boy. thats kind of the point.

idiot

[gorski74]

you are the idiot. the movie is about losing your youth. he is falling in love with his youth (the boy), symbolicly.

[filmlasse]

The most beautiful film

[lepivert]

The novel is much better than this film.

[DrMaximilianAue]

Die Prosa des vierten Kapitels von Thomas MANNs "Der Tod in Venedig" ist das Schönste, was jemals in deutscher Sprache geschrieben wurde: Unvergesslich, unsterblich ...

[Miffbat]

I'm sure you are right. I wish I knew German well enough to savor every word.

[DrMaximilianAue]

Hello Miffbat!

I wrote, that the prose in the fourth chapter of Thomas MANNs Death in Venice is the most beautiful, that was ever written in german: unforgettable, immortal.

[GordonMorrice]

Great film, I feel. Yes, it skims over much of Mann's passages on the nature of art which is central to the novel's theme, but as a piece of classical, painterly filmmaking, it is a masterpiece. Bogarde is brilliant in the role and should have recieved an Oscar nomination (Hackman deserved to win that year, though). In fact, it should have recieved - and won in many cases - many Oscars. Gorgeous set design and cinematography.

[duffduffbeerbeer]

no i am sure it was made between the american civil war and world war 1 hence it must have been in the 1950s dont you think???

[duffduffbeerbeer]

no i am sure it was made in 1954 just before world war 1

[duffduffbeerbeer]

not bad for a film made in the 1950s.

[surrey1666]

the film was made in 1971,

[nowherepeople3]

No, surrey1666 is right. Death in Venice was made in 1971.

[duffduffbeerbeer]

not bad for a film made in the 1950s.

[austinchrisb]

just got done reading the book. loved it. really want to see this. tadzio looks kinda like rachel griffiths from six feet under though. lol.

[Texhno]

Masterpiece

[caterinasaracino]

love this movie

[Rina0001]

I love this movie so much,cinema is beauty and this movie is a little masterpiece!

[AdaptorPlug]

Thanks for posting this. A classic from the 1970s.