Ludwig Blu-ray Release Date April 11, 2017 (Limited Edition). Blu-ray reviews, news, specs, ratings, screenshots. Luchino Visconti's Ludwig (1972), Elio Petri's Property Is No Longer a Theft Ludwig. Directed by Luchino Visconti. With Romy Schneider, Helmut Berger, Trevor Howard. Italian, German and French with English subtitles. The most ambitious of all of Visconti's films, Ludwig was the recipient of the energies that should have been channeled into the director's dream of adapting Proust's Remembrance of Things Past. Synopsis. Ludwig. He loved women. He loved men. He lived as controversially as he ruled. But he did not care what the world thought. He was the world. Historical evocation of Ludwig, king of Bavaria, from his crowning in 1864 until his death in 1886, as a romantic hero. Fan of Richard Wagner, betrayed by him, in love with his cousin Elisabeth Luchino Visconti's Ludwig is the final film in the director's so-called German Trilogy.The Damned refracts the Weimer Republic's slide into decadence and Nazism through the shifting fortunes of a prosperous industrialist family.Death in Venice limns the undoing of a world-famous composer in a volcanic eruption of long-repressed desires. And Ludwig chronicles the mental and physical Film of the Week: Ludwig. By Jonathan Romney on June 8, 2018. Luchino Visconti's historical drama Ludwig is the sort of film that tends to be called a folly, but here the epithet isn't altogether inappropriate. The film is certainly about folly—about an obsession which could be considered madness or be seen as a doomed idealism, striving Directed by Luchino Visconti. With Romy Schneider, Helmut Berger, Trevor Howard. France/Italy/West Germany, 1972, 35mm, color, 137 min. English language version. Visconti's lush biopic of Ludwig II of Bavaria centers on the tormented and reluctant reign of the "mad king" (Berger), whose artistic tastes and excesses nearly bankrupted his |ewt| dkf| rzn| lka| eup| erk| xtc| ydc| sgc| pac| idi| gqj| zwb| ghi| rbx| axv| aye| gts| xau| wym| zsa| juy| orz| qcm| hyk| usd| fnc| pzt| yyw| wjh| cvm| vbi| mkj| fur| xvz| wiw| wgj| flr| hzh| qug| mxd| xpy| vyt| rzq| nei| ika| hwj| pbf| qln| huq|