Death In Venice - Criterion Collection (Blu-ray)

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Death In Venice - Criterion Collection (Blu-ray)Based on the classic novella by Thomas Mann, 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 (Dirk Bogarde, in an exquisitely nuanced performance) travels to Venice to recover. There, he is struck by a vision of pure beauty in the form of a young boy named Tadzio (Bjrn Andrsen),

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