The Leopard( 1963)

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Luchino Visconti's enduring romantic adventure

Overview

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.

Top Billed Cast

Burt Lancaster
Prince Don Fabrizio Salina
Claudia Cardinale
Angelica Sedara / Bastiana
Alain Delon
Tancredi Falconeri
Paolo Stoppa
Don Calogero Sedara
Rina Morelli
Princess Maria Stella Salina
Romolo Valli
Father Pirrone
Terence Hill
Count Cavriaghi
Pierre Clémenti
Francesco Paolo
Lucilla Morlacchi
Concetta
Giuliano Gemma
Garibaldi's General
Ida Galli
Carolina
Ottavia Piccolo
Caterina
Carlo Valenzano
Paolo
Brook Fuller
Little Prince
Anna Maria Bottini
Mademoiselle Dombreuil, the Governess
Lola Braccini
Donna Margherita
Marino Masé
Tutor
Howard Nelson Rubien
Don Diego
Tina Lattanzi
Cook
Marcella Rovena
Peasant Woman
Rina De Liguoro
Princess of Presicce
Valerio Ruggeri
Colonel
Giovanni Melisenda
Don Onofrio Rotolo
Giancarlo Lolli
Franco Gulà
Mimi
Vittorio Duse
Colonel
Vanni Materassi
Sergeant
Giuseppe Stagnitti
Carmelo Artale
Olimpia Cavalli
Mariannina
Anna Maria Surdo
Halina Zalewska
Winni Riva
Waitress
Stelvio Rosi
Sergeant
Carlo Palmucci
Dante Posani
Rosolino Bua
Ivo Garrani
Colonel Pallavicino
Leslie French
Cavalier Chevalley
Serge Reggiani
Don Francisco Ciccio Tumeo
Pippo Agusta
Minor Role (uncredited)
Inna Alexeievna
Woman at Ball (uncredited)
Marie Bell
(uncredited)
Omero Capanna
Citizen (uncredited)
Lou Castel
Party Guest (uncredited)
Sandra Christolini
Youngest Daughter (uncredited)
Maurizio Merli
(uncredited)
Augusto Pescarini
(uncredited)
Paola Piscini
(uncredited)
Amalia Troiani
(uncredited)

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A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on Mon Mar 28 2022

I was given the blu-ray of this as a gift recently and what a lovely, thoughtful present that proved to be. The photography is glorious - the light is brilliant. Visconti delivers a truly captivating period piece but with none of the shallowness of many other costume/historical dramas. It features a magnificent performance from the gently aristocratic, classy Burt Lancaster as a Sicilian Prince coming to terms with the absorption of his kingdom into the newly unified Kingdom of Italy. The trials of love, war, the lavish and the poverty are all expertly and delicately portrayed and I really did ...