The Leopard

Luchino Visconti (director, writer)
G.B. Poletto (photographer)
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (novel)
Claudia Cardinale, Alain Delon, Burt Lancaster (starring)

Rome: Titanus, 1963. Three vintage borderless photographs from the 1963 film. With manuscript annotations on the verso.

Visconti's classic, spacious homage to the quiet death of the Sicilian aristocracy of the mid-nineteenth century, one of the great films of the Italian cinema. Perhaps the apex of Ms. Cardinale's career, and one of a handful of examples of Burt Lancaster's willingness to take on literate, complex roles. Nominated for an Academy Award.

Shot on location in Rome, Lazio, and Sicily, Italy.

4.5 x 3.5 inches. Near Fine.

BFI 1087. Criterion Collection 235. Ebert II. Godard, Histoires de cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. Schrader 22.


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