The Leopard

Il gattopardo, feature film, historical drama, Italy, France, 1963

DIRECTED BY: Luchino Visconti

The Leopard

CAST:
Burt Lancaster (princ Don Fabrizio Salina),
Claudia Cardinale (Angelica Sedara / Bertiana),
Alain Delon (Tancredi Falconeri),
Paolo Stoppa (Don Calogero Sedara),
Rina Morelli (princeza Maria Stella Salina),
Romolo Valli (otac Pirrone)

SCRIPT:
Luchino Visconti,
Suso Cecchi d'Amico,
Pasquale Festa Campanile,
Massimo Franciosa,
Enrico Medioli (based on novel by Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa)

PHOTOGRAPHY:
Giuseppe Rotunno

MUSIC:
Nino Rota

EDITING:
Mario Serandrei

Synopsis:
The story takes place after the Italian Risorgimento. Wealthy Don Fabrizio Salina experiences a breakdown of his power and influence, degradation of his morale and all other symptoms of the vanishing of his class from the historical scene. He is frustrated with his inability to stop it from happening… The film won a Palme d’Or at the Cannes film festival.

color, 186'

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