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The Birth of the Leopard (2019)
Directed by Luigi Falorni
Documentary · 1h 30m
The only novel written by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard (Il Gattopardo, 1958), just like its screen adaptation by Luchino Visconti, is considered a masterpiece. This film tells about the life of Tomasi and his German-Baltic wife Alexandra von Wolff-Stomersee – their unusual love story. The chaos of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and World War II forced Alexandra to leave St. Petersburg and later on – the family's castle in Stāmeriena, Latvia. During the war, in 1943, she fled to her husband in Palermo, where she would live until the day she died.
Crew
- Director
- Luigi Falorni
- Producer
- Elīna Gediņa-Ducena, Jörg Bundschuh, Gints Grūbe
Details
- Original title
- Die Geburt des Leoparden
- Release date
- 2019-10-22
- Runtime
- 1h 30m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- DE
- Spoken languages
- English, French, Italian, Russian, German
- Countries
- Germany, Italy, Latvia
- Production
- Kick Film, Mistrus Media