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The Leopard (1963)

T 08/13/2004 (US) Drama 3h 6m

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Luchino Visconti's enduring romantic adventure

Overview

As Garibaldi's troops begin the unification of Italy in the 1860s, an aristocratic Sicilian family grudgingly adapts to the sweeping social changes undermining their way of life. Proud but pragmatic Prince Don Fabrizio Salina allows his war hero nephew, Tancredi, to marry Angelica, the beautiful daughter of gauche, bourgeois Don Calogero, in order to maintain the family's accustomed level of comfort and political clout.

Luchino Visconti

Director, Screenplay
Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa

Novel
Suso Cecchi d'Amico

Screenplay
Enrico Medioli

Screenplay
Massimo Franciosa

Screenplay
Pasquale Festa Campanile

Screenplay

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Burt Lancaster

Prince Don Fabrizio Salina
Claudia Cardinale

Angelica Sedara / Bastiana
Alain Delon

Tancredi Falconeri
Paolo Stoppa

Don Calogero Sedara
Rina Morelli

Princess Maria Stella Salina
Romolo Valli

Father Pirrone
Terence Hill

Count Cavriaghi
Pierre Clémenti

Francesco Paolo
Lucilla Morlacchi

Concetta
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A review by CinemaSerf

80%

Written by CinemaSerf on March 28, 2022

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... read the rest.

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