DEATH IN VENICE

Original Argentine 29 inch x 43 inch Poster for the 1971 Luchino Visconti Drama DEATH IN VENICE, based on the novel by Thomas Mann and starring Dirk Bogarde, Silvana Mangano and Bjorn Andresen.

This late-career masterpiece from Luchino Visconti is a meditation on the nature of art, the allure of beauty, and the inescapability of death. A fastidious composer reeling from a disastrous concert, Gustav von Aschenbach (Bogarde) travels to Venice to recover. There, he is struck by a vision of pure beauty in the form of a young boy named Tadzio (Björn Andrésen), his infatuation developing into an obsession even as rumours of a plague spread through the city. Setting Mann’s story of queer desire and bodily decay against the sublime music of Gustav Mahler, Death in Venice is one of cinema’s most exalted literary adaptations, as sensually rich as it is allegorically resonant.

The poster is in very good folded condition.