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  • The Birth of the Leopard (2019)
  • 90 min | Documentary
The Birth of the Leopard (2019)
90 min | Documentary
How a great love became a masterpiece of European literature: the fascinating story of how the novel "The Leopard" came to be written. When Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa died in 1957, he was penniless. One year later, his only novel The ...See moreHow a great love became a masterpiece of European literature: the fascinating story of how the novel "The Leopard" came to be written. When Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa died in 1957, he was penniless. One year later, his only novel The Leopard was published and became an overnight success. Luchino Visconti's eponymous film won the Palme D'Or at Cannes in 1963. The story of how the book came to be written is largely unknown. It's based on the relationship between the writer and his Baltic German wife and how they lost almost everything against the background of the massive upheavals in Europe and who nonetheless managed to reinvent themselves. See less
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Director
Luigi Falorni
Writers
Luigi Falorni (screenplay) | Thomas Keutner (idea) (screenplay) | Bernhard Pfletschinger
Producer
Jörg Bundschuh
Composer
Karlis Auzans
Cinematographer
Roland Wagner
Editor
Wolfgang Grimmeisen
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Updated Oct 22, 2019
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Mar 5, 2020 (Germany)

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