Luchino Visconti

1906-1976

Biography: life and films

Luchino Visconti was an Italian film director and screenwriter whose birth name was Luchino Visconti di Modrone. He was born in Milan, Lombardy, Italy on 2nd November 1906 and died in Rome, Italy on 17th March 1976, aged 69.

His best films as a screenwriter include Ossessione (1943), La Terra trema (1948) and Il Gattopardo (1963), and whose best work as a film director include La Terra trema (1948), Rocco e i suoi fratelli (1960) and Il Gattopardo (1963).

Luchino Visconti scripted 17 films, directed 17 films and appeared in 1 film.

His most frequent genres include: drama (14 films), history (4), romance (3), comedy-drama (2), comedy (2), War (2) and Fantasy (2).

Our average rating for Luchino Visconti over all films is: 3.8

Filmography

Key: d = director; w = writer

Tosca (1941) [w]

Ossessione (1943) [d,w]

La Terra trema (1948) [d,w]

Bellissima (1951) [d]

Siamo donne (1953) [d,w]

Senso (1954) [d,w]

Le Notti bianche (1957) [d]

Rocco e i suoi fratelli (1960) [d,w]

Boccaccio '70 (1962) [d,w]

Il Gattopardo (1963) [d]

Vague Stars of Ursa... (1965) [d,w]

Le Streghe (1967) [d]

Lo Straniero (1967) [d,w]

La Caduta degli dei (1969) [d,w]

Morte a Venezia (1971) [d,w]

Ludwig (1972) [d,w]

Gruppo di famiglia in un interno (1974) [d]

L'Innocente (1976) [d]



The Carry On films, from the heyday of British film comedy
sb-img-17
Looking for a deeper insight into the most popular series of British film comedies? Visit our page and we'll give you one.
The best of Russian cinema
sb-img-24
There's far more to Russian movies than the monumental works of Sergei Eisenstein - the wondrous films of Andrei Tarkovsky for one.
The very best fantasy films in French cinema
sb-img-30
Whilst the horror genre is under-represented in French cinema, there are still a fair number of weird and wonderful forays into the realms of fantasy.
The very best of French film comedy
sb-img-7
Thanks to comedy giants such as Louis de Funès, Fernandel, Bourvil and Pierre Richard, French cinema abounds with comedy classics of the first rank.
The best French Films of the 1920s
sb-img-3
In the 1920s French cinema was at its most varied and stylish - witness the achievements of Abel Gance, Marcel L'Herbier, Jean Epstein and Jacques Feyder.

Other things to look at


Copyright © frenchfilms.org 1998-2024
All rights reserved



All content on this page is protected by copyright