THE FILM

The film "Gattopardo" was made by Luchino Visconti in 1962 using the Technirama film-recording system and released in 1963. It received the "Palma d’oro" (Golden Palm Award) at Cannes, three silver ribbons (medals) and the David Donatello Award. The film marked a turning point in Visconti’s career, in fact, "the subjective themes of solitude, death, the riddle (intrigue) and individual unhappiness were given the same status as the cultural and aesthetic objective themes. Visconti’s "Gattopardo" may be defined as a work of transition: from Visconti’s first (neorealistic films) in which the objective world prevailed to the second Visconti, in which themes of decadence and decline were given precedence over history, ideology and politics" (Lino Micciché).