Luchino Visconti Between Truth and Passion

Forty years after his death this documentary pays tribute to one of the major filmmakers of Italian cinema to an original work that continues to inspire todays cinema Coming from one of the greatest families of the Italian aristocracy he could have been a rich and cultured man living in opulence and idleness but Luchino wanted a different destiny This is the story that director Elisabeth Kapnist and Christian DumaisLvowski wanted to tell Count Visconti di Modrone wears the clothes of a legend that he never stopped shaping throughout his life This documentary reconstructs the fabric of a brilliant life dedicated to art theater opera and cinema This artistic work is also that of a committed man who was a fellow traveler of the Communist Party and who resisted fascism