Death in Venice

In this adaptation of the Thomas Mann novel, avant-garde composter Gustave Aschenbach travels to a Venetian seaside resort in search of repose after a period of stress., Death in Venice., In this film, based on a novel by Thomas Mann, Dirk Bogarde stars as a composer who is terrified that he has lost all vestiges of humanity. While visiting Venice, Bogarde falls in love with a beautiful young boy. The relationship is ruined by Bogarde’s obsession with the boy’s physical perfection., In this adaptation of the Thomas Mann novel, avant-garde composer Gustave Aschenbach (loosely based on Gustav Mahler) travels to a Venetian seaside resort in search of repose after a period of artistic and personal stress. But he finds no peace there, for he soon develops a troubling attraction to an adolescent boy, Tadzio, on vacation with his family. The boy embodies an ideal of beauty that Aschenbach has long sought and he becomes infatuated. However, the onset of a deadly pestilence threatens them both physically and represents the corruption that compromises and threatens all ideals., Aging German composer Gustav von Aschenbach becomes inexorably drawn to the fair-haired beauty of a young boy he sees in a Venice hotel., Ailing composer Gustav arrives at a Venetian resort and develops a fixation for a beautiful teenage boy. As a plague descends upon the region, Gustav becomes a victim of his own obsession. An opulent masterwork from Luchino Visconti regarded by many as Dirk Bogarde’s finest hour., Tony Palmer’s operatic adaptation of Thomas Mann’s haunting novella stars Robert Gard as Gustav von Aschenbach, an aging writer who obsesses over a handsome boy in Venice., A composer is consumed from afar by his passion for boy in a decaying turn-of-the-century Venice., An avant-garde composer, suffering from ill health, travels to a Venetian resort, where he becomes obsessed with the beauty of a young boy.