Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Helmut Berger, the Austrian actor and regular Luchino Visconti collaborator who become one of the most recognizable faces of ...

An object of fascination to such filmmakers as William Dieterle and Luchino Visconti, the eccentric Ludwig II ruled Bavaria from 1864 to ’86, enriching its cultural life even as he allowed his ...

The trilogy of “The Damned,” “Death in Venice” and “Ludwig” is whole again, in editions that freshly reveal their conflicted queerness. By Joshua Barone The revered Italian director Luchino Visconti ...

On April 15, 1944, in Rome, Fascist soldiers captured Luchino Visconti di Modrone, the Count of Lonate Pozzolo. Since the late thirties, the Count had been a loyal Communist, sheltering party members ...