Filming Death in Venice

Film screening: Death in Venice
On Thursday morning, 18 December 2025, the famous adaptation Death in Venice (1971) will be shown, directed by Luchino Visconti. The role of the sickly composer Gustav von Aschenbach is played by Dirk Bogarde.

Thomas Mann (1875–1955)
Thomas Mann was a modern writer at the beginning of the 20th century. In 1929, he received the Nobel Prize in Literature. Throughout his life, he grappled with his hidden homosexuality, a theme he would have liked to explore in his writing but maintained a reserved distance from in his work.

Luchino Visconti (1906–1976)
Visconti was a screenwriter and director of theatre, film, and opera. After the Second World War, he became a Marxist, which became clearly visible in his films. Later, he broke with neorealism and developed a more stylized, sometimes even baroque, film style. One of the highlights of that period is Death in Venice.