The Leopard

Name: The Leopard
Director: Luchino Visconti
Genre: Drama
Released: 1963
Duration: 3 h 6 min
Rating: 7.7

Luchino Visconti's enduring romantic adventure

1963·Directed by Luchino Visconti·4.1·3h 6m

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Drama France Italy

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.

Recommended by 7 People

“When I think I'm not right for a role because I'm not enough like the character, I always think of Burt Lancaster in The Leopard—this Hollywood guy playing an elegant Sicilian gentleman. I don't think so, but you know what? It worked fantastically.”

Willem Dafoe

Actor

“Probably the best movie I've ever seen in my life.”

Callum Turner

Actor

“This is magnificent. This is really a masterpiece.”

Jeremy Thomas

Producer

“The leopard was wonderful to watch for that and Visconti is of course visually everything is so so beautiful.”

Barbara Sukowa

Actor

“I've seen some of these clothes up close the shapes the fabric the details, you get a sense of when the film was made but you also are just in love with how period it all looks and how exquisite it all looks.”