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Quick Info

IMDb
Rating
9.3/10
Release2019
Runtime1h 30m
StatusReleased
BudgetN/A
RevenueN/A
Production
Kick Film
Mistrus Media
Movie

The Birth of the Leopard

2019
1h 30m
9.3
Documentary

Synopsis

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.

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