Luchino Visconti

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Birth Name: Luchino Visconti di Modrone

Born: 2 November 1906 Died: 17 March 1976

Country of origin: Italy

Height: 6' 1"

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The Idiot's Guide To Famous (Classic) Filmmakers (85 items)
list by Severin Severin

Published 10 years, 2 months ago

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Festival de Cannes - The Jury (652 items)
list by Kankku

Published 12 years ago

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42 votes

Favorite directors, 3 masterpieces of each one (89 items)
list by jeffpsych

Published 9 years, 11 months ago

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42 votes

Your essential guide to Italian classic cinema (115 items)
list by acqua gassata

Published 8 years, 3 months ago

4 comments

41 votes

A Movie for every Director (part 3) (100 items)
list by xolmis

Published 10 years ago

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Description: Luchino Visconti, duke of Modrone (November 2, 1906 - March 17, 1976) was an Italian theatre and cinema director and writer. Born in a noble and wealthy family (one of the richest of northern Italyin) in Milan, at the age of 30 he went to Paris, and began his career as Jean Renoir's assistant in 1936, due to the intercession of the common friend Coco Chanel, in Une partie de campagne. After a short tour to the U.S., where he visited Hollywood, he was back in Italy to act as Renoir's assistant again for La Tosca (1939), a production that was interrupted and later completed by German director Karl Koch because of the war. To ... (more)