Luchino Visconti
Italian director (1906–1976)
- Fame63.3
- Momentum10.7
- Directors rank#190
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He started neorealism with a film the Fascists condemned, then spent the rest of his career turning toward the opposite: vast historical epics about aristocratic decay, death, and beauty. A Milanese count who fought in the resistance and made some of the most visually lush, politically complicated films in cinema history.
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Born into Milanese nobility in 1906, Visconti began as an assistant to Jean Renoir in France before returning to direct Ossessione in 1943 — a raw working-class story the Fascist regime hated but that became Italian neorealism's first landmark. He served in the resistance during the war, stayed active in left-wing politics after, and then pivoted: Senso in 1954, The Leopard in 1963 (Palme d'Or), Rocco and His Brothers, and the "German Trilogy" — The Damned, Death in Venice, Ludwig — all sweeping, decadent meditations on European history and noble collapse. He directed opera and theatre at La S…
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- Golden Lion
- Palme d'Or
- Grand Jury Prize of the Venice Film Festival
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