Searching for Tadzio
An account of Italian film director Luchino Visconti’s travels in search for a young actor to portray the role of Tadzio in his 1971 adaptation of Thomas Mann’s novella Death in Venice (1912).
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Genre: Documentary, TV Movie
Director: Luchino Visconti
Actors: Björn Andrésen, Luchino Visconti, Sergio Garfagnoli
Country: Italy
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