Film
Death in Venice

Still from Death in Venice © Swank Motion Pictures
Still from Death in Venice © Swank Motion Pictures

Mann at the Movies

Kresge Hall 1515 at Northwestern University

Death in Venice (1971) is a haunting adaptation of Thomas Mann's classic novel about an artist, paralysed by ennui and repressed emotion, who, during a visit to Venice, discovers in the homoerotic affection for a young man the last remnant of beauty and emotion. Lost in this “impossible love”, he loses not only his dignity, but also finds his death.

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This film screening is supported by the German Department at Northwestern University, the Goethe-Institut Chicago and the Departments of English, French and Italian, Slavics, and the Program of Gender and Sexuality Studies at Northwestern University.
 

Details

Kresge Hall 1515 at Northwestern University

1880 Campus Drive
Evanston, IL 60208

Language: English

Free and open to the public