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ITALY · 1963

The Leopard

Luchino Visconti
social change and upheaval aristocratic decline Italian unification tradition versus modernity class struggle
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Synopsis

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.

Year1963
CountryItaly
DirectorLuchino Visconti
Cinematic Threads
He grew up on opera and realism, and his roots were in French poetic realism — Renoir, Marcel Carné. He went straight from that into Italian neo-realism, making Ossessione (1943)... Then he moved on to a more operatic, theatrical realism, which reached its peak in Senso (1954) and The Leopard (1963).
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