LUCHINO VISCONTI

Italy - France - Germany 1999 / Video / Color / 61 min.

The story of Luchino Visconti, his life, films, plays and opera, can only be told by looking back at his childhood and adolescence, by tracing his roots. This new documentary on the great Italian director by a man who knew him personally and professionally, revisits the sites of Visconti's early life and follows his road to personal and artistic maturity, guided by testimony of, among others, Jean Marais, Burt Lancaster, Claudia Cardinale, Alain Delon, Vittorio Gassman, Marcello Mastroianni, Francesco Rosi, Suso Cecchi d'Amico and Franco Zeffirelli.

Script:  Luigi Filippo d'Amico, Carlo Lizzani.    Phot.:  Bruno di Virgilio.    Ed.:  Danilo Perticara.    Mus.:  Franco Mannino.    Prod.:  Laura Pettini, Silvia Pettini, Felix Film, Via F. Cavallotti 119, 00152 Rome (Italie), t�l.: (39-06) 3236790, fax: (39-06) 3235695 / Raifiction / NDR/ARTE, Gazzellenkamp., 57, 22054 Hambourg (Allemagne), t�l.: (49-40) 41 56 47 50, fax: (49-40) 41 56 54.    Sales:  Felix Film.

Carlo Lizzani Born in Rome in 1922, Carlo Lizzani began his film career as a journalist and critic, and was one of the early theorists of Italian neorealism. In the late '40s he worked as an assistant director and screenwriter for, among others, Vergano (OUTCRY, 1946), Rossellini (GERMANY, YEAR ZERO, 1947), De Santis (BITTER RICE, 1948) and Lattuada (THE MILL ON THE PO, 1949). He directed his first feature, ACHTUNG! BANDITI!, in 1951, and gained international attention with CHRONICLE OF POOR LOVERS (1954). His FONTAMARA won the Grand Prize of the Americas at the 1980 Montreal International Film Festival.

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