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Leopard (The)
Original Title
Il Gattopardo- Director: Luchino Visconti
- Writer: Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa; Suso Cecchi d'Amico
- Producer: Goffredo Lombardo; Pietro Notarianni
CGiii Comment
There's no denying the beauty of the film. The sheer grandeur, opulence and spectacle are all impressive.
An over-powering soundtrack builds to full power when nothing is happening on screen. The dubbing is a vicious assault on the ears.
The actress who plays the mother...hopefully, this was her one and only performance.
Nothing actually happens in 3 very long hours. All pomp without substance.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
In the 1860s, a dying aristocracy struggles to maintain itself against a harsh Sicilian landscape. The film traces with a slow and deliberate rhythm the waning of the noble home of Fabrizio Corbero, Prince of Salina (the Leopard) and the corresponding rise to eminence of the enormously wealthy ex-peasant Don Calogero Sedara. The prince himself refuses to take active steps to halt the decline of his personal fortunes or to help build a new Sicily but his nephew Tancredi, Prince of Falconeri swims with the tide and assures his own position by marrying Don Calogero's beautiful daughter Angelica. The climatic scene is the sumptuous forty-minute ball, where Tancredi introduces Angelica to society.
Cast & Characters
Burt Lancaster as Prince Don Fabrizio Salina;
Claudia Cardinale as Angelica Sedara / Bertiana;
Alain Delon as Tancredi Falconeri;
Paolo Stoppa as Don Calogero Sedara;
Rina Morelli as Princess Maria Stella Salina;
Romolo Valli as Father Pirrone;
Terence Hill as Count Cavriaghi;
Pierre Clementi as Francesco Paolo;
Lucilla Morlacchi as Concetta;
Giuliano Gemma as Garibaldi's General;
Ida Galli as Carolina;
Ottavia Piccolo as Caterina;
Carlo Valenzano as Paolo;
Brook Fuller as Little Prince;
Anna Maria Bottini as Mademoiselle Dombreuil, the Governess