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Luchino Visconti
Director -
Suso Cecchi d'Amico
Screenplay -
Massimo Franciosa
Screenplay -
Pasquale Festa Campanile
Screenplay -
Robert J. Schiffer
Makeup Artist -
Enrico Medioli
Screenplay -
Giuseppe Rotunno
Director of Photography -
Alberto De Rossi
Makeup Artist
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CinemaSerf 3/28/2022 7:44:45 PM
I was given the blu-ray of this as a gift recently and what a lovely, thoughtful present that proved to be. The photography is glorious - the light is brilliant. Visconti delivers a truly captivating period piece but with none of the shallowness of many other costume/historical dramas. It features a magnificent performance from the gently aristocratic, classy Burt Lancaster as a Sicilian Prince coming to terms with the absorption of his kingdom into the newly unified Kingdom of Italy. The trials of love, war, the lavish and the poverty are all expertly and delicately portrayed and I really did get a sense of the fragility of the times. Alain Delon and Rina Morelli are superb, as is Claudia Cardinale and Nino Rota provides some sumptuous orchestrations to help all along. Knowing much about the history of the time isn't essential, it all unfolds wonderfully...
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Count CavriaghiAlain Delon
Tancredi FalconeriClaudia Cardinale
Angelica Sedara / BastianaBurt Lancaster
Prince Don Fabrizio SalinaGiuliano Gemma
Garibaldi's GeneralPaolo Stoppa
Don Calogero SedaraMarino Masé
TutorSerge Reggiani
Don Francisco Ciccio Tumeo