Details for: Il gattopardo The leopard / › University of West London Library catalogue

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Il gattopardo [videorecording] = The leopard / director, Luchino Visconti.

Contributor(s): Visconti, Luchino [director.] | Rota, Nino [music.] | Lancaster, Burt [actor.] | Delon, Alain [actor.] | Cardinale, Claudia [actor.]Material type: Film

FilmPublisher number: BFIVD595 | BFILanguage: English Summary language: English Publication details: London : BFI, 2004Description: 1 videodisc (187 min.) : colContained works: Tomasi di Lampedusa, Giuseppe, 1896-1957. Il gattopardoSubject(s): Feature films | Fiction -- Film and video adaptationsDDC classification: 791.437

Contents:

Feature film - Interview with Claudia Cardinale - The leopard trailer - Director biography - Also available - Acknowledgements.

Production credits: Based on the novel by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa.Cast includes Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon and Claudia Cardinale.Summary: This film tells the epic story of one aristocratic family during the 1860s, at the time of the unification of Italy. Prince Fabrizio Salina (Lancaster) realises that times are changing when his war-hero nephew Tancredi (Delon) starts courting Angelica (Cardinale), the beautiful daughter of the town's middle-class mayor. When asked to grant his approval for their marriage, he agrees, even though it confirms everything he dreads and despises about the rise of the bourgeoisie. The celebrated ball sequence, which lasts for much of the film's last quarter, is often credited as one of the most oppulent scenes in cinema history.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Home library	Shelving location	Class number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item reservations
DVD	Paul Hamlyn Library	Paul Hamlyn Library	Floor 1 Mobile shelves	791.4372 GAT (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		05943051

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Made in 1963 in Italy and France by Twentienth Century Fox, this film won the Palme d'Or at Cannes Film Festival, 1963.

Feature film - Interview with Claudia Cardinale - The leopard trailer - Director biography - Also available - Acknowledgements.

Based on the novel by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa.

Cast includes Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon and Claudia Cardinale.

This film tells the epic story of one aristocratic family during the 1860s, at the time of the unification of Italy. Prince Fabrizio Salina (Lancaster) realises that times are changing when his war-hero nephew Tancredi (Delon) starts courting Angelica (Cardinale), the beautiful daughter of the town's middle-class mayor. When asked to grant his approval for their marriage, he agrees, even though it confirms everything he dreads and despises about the rise of the bourgeoisie. The celebrated ball sequence, which lasts for much of the film's last quarter, is often credited as one of the most oppulent scenes in cinema history.