The Leopard
– As Garibaldi's troops begin the unification of Italy in the 1860s, an aristocratic Sicilian family g..
As Garibaldi's troops begin the unification of Italy in the 1860s, an aristocratic Sicilian family grudgingly adapts to the sweeping social changes undermining their way of life. Proud but pragmatic Prince Don Fabrizio Salina allows his war hero nephew, Tancredi, to marry Angelica, the beautiful daughter of gauche, bourgeois Don Calogero, in order to maintain the family's accustomed level of comfort and political clout.
29 Mar 1963
Italian, Latin, French
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Luchino Visconti
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (novel), Suso Cecchi D'Amico (screenplay and adaptation), Pasquale Festa Campanile (screenplay and adaptation), Enrico Medioli (screenplay and adaptation), Massimo Franciosa (screenplay and adaptation), Luchino Visconti (screenplay and adaptation)
Burt Lancaster, Claudia Cardinale, Alain Delon, Paolo Stoppa
In the 1860s, a dying aristocracy struggles to maintain itself against a harsh Sicilian landscape. The film traces with a slow and deliberate rhythm the waning of the noble home of Fabrizio Corbero, Prince of Salina (the Leopard) and the corresponding rise to eminence of the enormously wealthy ex-peasant Don Calogero Sedara. The prince himself refuses to take active steps to halt the decline of his personal fortunes or to help build a new Sicily but his nephew Tancredi, Prince of Falconeri swims with the tide and assures his own position by marrying Don Calogero's beautiful daughter Angelica. The climatic scene is the sumptuous forty-minute ball, where Tancredi introduces Angelica to society.
Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 10 wins & 5 nominations.
Cowboy Pictures