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Morte a Venezia (1971) More at IMDbPro »

• Dirk Bogarde based his appearance on that of the distinguished composer/conductor Gustav Mahler, whose Fifth and Third Symphonies were adapted as background music for the film.
  
  
• Burt Lancaster eagerly sought the role played by Dirk Bogarde.
  
  
• In the Thomas Mann novella Aschenbach is an author, not a composer.
  
  
• 'Bjorn Andresen' is dubbed, since the Swedish actor was playing a Polish character.
  
  
• Second part of Luchino Visconti's German Trilogy also including La caduta degli dei (1969) and Ludwig (1972).
  
  
• Tom Courtenay said at the premiere that he felt Alec Guinness should have played Aschenbach, because then the audience would have believed that he was the great composer - "with Dirk, you never felt he was."
  
  
• Mark Burns later admitted he never understood the meaning of his dialogue.
  
  
• In the dining room, Aschenbach orders "soup and fish" which is also a slang term for his formal evening suit.
  
  
• One day during filming 'Bjorn Andresen' asked Dirk Bogarde what his favorite Beatles song was. Bogarde did not know how to answer.
  
  

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