Il gattopardo = The leopard
Goffredo Lombardo (Producer), Luchino Visconti (Director, Screenwriter), Suso Cecchi d'Amico (Screenwriter), Pasquale Festa Campanile (Screenwriter), Enrico Medioli (Screenwriter), Massimo Franciosa (Screenwriter), Burt Lancaster (Actor), Alain Delon (Actor), Claudia Cardinale (Actor), Paolo Stoppa (Actor), Rina Morelli (Actor), Romolo Valli (Actor), Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Criterion Collection (Firm), Titanus (Firm), Pathé cinéma (France), Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
Set in Sicily in the 1800s, this film depicts Prince Salina, a great landowner, who watches the decrease of the aristocracy's power and influence during the 'Il Risorgimento', the unification of Italy under the royal House of Savoy. The upper class tries to ignore the nationalist movements, while the prince's rebellious nephew joins Giuseppe Garibaldi's revolutionaries
DVD Video, Italian, 2004
Special edition
Criterion Collection, [United States], 2004