The Leopard

+ intro by Adrian Wootton, Chief Executive, Film London and British Film Commission

Il gattopardo

Visconti’s wistful and lavish classic details the demise of a noble but fading Italian aristocracy.

  • Director

    Luchino Visconti

  • With

    Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon, Claudia Cardinale

  • Italy 1963. 186min

  • Digital 4K

  • Certificate

    PG

  • English subtitles

Widely regarded as Visconti’s masterpiece, the filmmaker borrowed from his own aristocratic past for this epochal tale of Don Fabrizio, a noble 19th century Sicilian prince who clings to his sumptuous but fading way of life, despite the scheming of his young nephew. Culminating in a painterly ballroom sequence, this adaptation of Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa’s novel is so painstakingly rendered it resembles a window on to a bygone age.

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