FILM DIRECTOR

Luchino Visconti

1906 - 1976

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Luchino Visconti di Modrone, Count of Lonate Pozzolo (Italian: [luˈkiːno viˈskonti di moˈdroːne]; 2 November 1906 – 17 March 1976) was an Italian filmmaker, theatre and opera director, and screenwriter. He was one of the fathers of cinematic neorealism, but later moved towards luxurious, sweeping epics dealing with themes of beauty, decadence, death, and European history, especially the decay of the nobility and the bourgeoisie. Critic Jonathan Jones wrote that “no one did as much to shape Italian cinema as Luchino Visconti.” Born into a Milanese noble family with close ties to the artistic world, Visconti began his career in France as an assistant director to Jean Renoir. His 1943 directorial debut, Ossessione, was condemned by the Fascist regime for its unvarnished depictions of working-class characters, but is today renowned as a pioneering work of Italian cinema, generally regarded as the first neorealist film. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Luchino Visconti is the 19th most popular film director (down from 18th in 2019), the 281st most popular biography from Italy (down from 230th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Italian Film Director.

Luchino Visconti is most famous for his work on the Italian neorealist films, such as "Rocco and His Brothers" and "The Leopard."

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Luchino Visconti ranks 19 out of 2,041Before him are Pier Paolo Pasolini, Woody Allen, Pedro Almodóvar, Leni Riefenstahl, Ridley Scott, and Bernardo Bertolucci. After him are Luis Buñuel, Andrei Tarkovsky, Sergio Leone, Francis Ford Coppola, François Truffaut, and Cecil B. DeMille.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Luchino Visconti ranks 13Before him are Grace Hopper, Kurt Gödel, Samuel Beckett, Aristotle Onassis, Ernst Chain, and Faisal of Saudi Arabia. After him are Emmanuel Levinas, Josephine Baker, Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten, Franz Joseph II, Prince of Liechtenstein, Estée Lauder, and Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark. Among people deceased in 1976, Luchino Visconti ranks 8Before him are Agatha Christie, Martin Heidegger, Bernard Montgomery, Werner Heisenberg, Howard Hughes, and Alvar Aalto. After him are Zhou Enlai, Max Ernst, Jean Gabin, Fritz Lang, Leopold Ružička, and André Malraux.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Luchino Visconti ranks 281 out of 5,161Before him are Pope Innocent IV (1195), Bernardo Bertolucci (1941), Arcangelo Corelli (1653), Pope Celestine IV (1200), Scipio Africanus (-235), and Giovanni Domenico Cassini (1625). After him are Vitus (290), Pietro Perugino (1446), Cosimo de' Medici (1389), Pope Eugene I (600), Pope Cornelius (200), and Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710).

Among FILM DIRECTORS In Italy

Among film directors born in Italy, Luchino Visconti ranks 4Before him are Federico Fellini (1920), Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922), and Bernardo Bertolucci (1941). After him are Sergio Leone (1929), Michelangelo Antonioni (1912), Vittorio De Sica (1901), Tinto Brass (1933), Roberto Rossellini (1906), Frank Capra (1897), Franco Zeffirelli (1923), and Dario Argento (1940).