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Release Date:
15 July 1963 (USA)
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Tagline:
Luchino Visconti's Enduring Romantic Adventure
Plot:
The Prince of Salina, a noble aristocrat of impeccable integrity, tries to preserve his family and class amid the tumultuous social upheavals of 1860's Sicily. full summary | add synopsis
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Nominated for Oscar.
Another 7 wins
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1 nomination
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(2 articles)
Italian costume exhibition boasts Oscar-winning outfits
(From BoxWish. 4 September 2009, 6:36 AM, PDT)
Summer Preview: Repertory Calendar for the Coasts
(From IFC. 5 May 2009, 1:32 PM, PDT)
(From BoxWish. 4 September 2009, 6:36 AM, PDT)
Summer Preview: Repertory Calendar for the Coasts
(From IFC. 5 May 2009, 1:32 PM, PDT)
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The lost world
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Burt Lancaster | ... | Prince Don Fabrizio Salina | |
| Claudia Cardinale | ... | Angelica Sedara / Bertiana | |
| Alain Delon | ... | Tancredi Falconeri | |
| Paolo Stoppa | ... | Don Calogero Sedara | |
| Rina Morelli | ... | Princess Maria Stella Salina | |
| Romolo Valli | ... | Father Pirrone | |
| Terence Hill | ... | Count Cavriaghi (as Mario Girotti) | |
| Pierre Clémenti | ... | Francesco Paolo | |
| Lucilla Morlacchi | ... | Concetta | |
| Giuliano Gemma | ... | Garibaldi's General | |
| Ida Galli | ... | Carolina | |
| Ottavia Piccolo | ... | Caterina | |
| Carlo Valenzano | ... | Paolo | |
| Brook Fuller | ... | Little Prince | |
| Anna Maria Bottini | ... | Mademoiselle Dombreuil, the Governess |
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Runtime:
187 min | Spain:151 min (cut version) | UK:161 min (cut version) | USA:165 min (cut version) | France:195 min (Cannes Film Festival) | 205 min (premiere version) | West Germany:161 min (cut version)
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
2.20 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Westrex Recording System)
Certification:
Germany:12 |
Portugal:M/12 |
Australia:M (TV rating) |
West Germany:12 (f) |
Norway:12 (re-rating) (1985) |
Norway:16 (original rating) |
Argentina:13 |
Australia:PG |
Finland:K-12 |
Netherlands:12 |
Sweden:11 |
UK:PG (video rating) |
UK:U (original rating) |
USA:PG (certificate #20553) |
Hong Kong:IIB
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The title "Il Gattopardo" literally translates from Italian as "The Serval". In France, the film was released as "Le Guépard" ("The Cheetah"), and in UK and USA as "The Leopard". The serval, the cheetah and the leopard are in fact three different species of felines.
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Anachronisms: There is much kissing of hands during the movie. According to the book "Histoire de la politesse de 1789 à nos jours (History of good manners from 1789 till today)" by F. Rouvillois, the kissing of hands only appeared at the turn of the XXth century when the story in the movie was supposed to take place in 1860-1862, more than 40 years before.
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Quotes:
Prince Don Fabrizio Salina:
You know what is happening in our country? Nothing... simply an imperceptible replacement of one class for another. The middle class doesn't want to destroy us. It simply wants to take our place... and very gently.
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Soundtrack:
Valzer Brillante
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Could it be that Visconti's 1963 epic--long lying in ruins until its 1983 partial restoration--is the greatest movie ever made? The real subject of this movie, surely the wisest and most beautiful of all "period pictures," is the twentieth century--what has been gained and above all what is lost. Only a Marxist duke like Visconti could have had the split sensibility, and the anecdotal knowhow, to render Sicily just before its entry to modernity with the splendor and the caginess that radiates through every frame of this masterpiece. As the prince making final compromises before leaving the faded world he has inherited, Burt Lancaster gives one of the greatest performances in movies. Possessed of both an elegiac melancholy and a shrewd, dry-eyed appraisal of the failures and the glorious extroversion of its aristocratic world, THE LEOPARD is like a dream you can't bear to let go of. Contemporary viewers will see echoes of THE DEER HUNTER, 1900 and THE AGE OF INNOCENCE--and will see those films shrivel to the size of cocktail franks.