Ludwig

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Label

Ludwig

Statement of responsibility

Mega Film ; co-produced by Cinétel, Dieter Geissler Filmproduktion, and Divina-Film ; director, Luchino Visconti ; written by Suso Cecchi d'Amico, Enrico Medioli, and Luchino Visconti ; executive producer, Robert Gordon Edwards ; producers, Dieter Geissler and Ugo Santalucia

Title variation

Luchino Visconti's Ludwig

Contributor

• Howard, Trevor, 1916-1988
• Dieter Geissler Filmproduktion (Firm)
• Mangano, Silvana, 1930-1989
• Cinetel (Firm : Paris, France)
• Medioli, Enrico
• Arrow Academy (Firm)
• Nannuzzi, Armando, 1925-2001
• Offenbach, Jacques, 1819-1880
• Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883
• Schneider, Romy, 1938-1982
• Schumann, Robert, 1810-1856
• Visconti, Luchino, 1906-1976
• Berger, Helmut, 1944-
• Cecchi d'Amico, Suso
• Mega Films (Firm)
• Divina Film
• Fröbe, Gert, 1913-1988

Actor

• Berger, Helmut, 1944-
• Schneider, Romy, 1938-1982
• Mangano, Silvana, 1930-1989
• Howard, Trevor, 1916-1988
• Fröbe, Gert, 1913-1988

Composer

• Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883
• Offenbach, Jacques, 1819-1880
• Schumann, Robert, 1810-1856

Director

• Visconti, Luchino, 1906-1976

Photographer

• Nannuzzi, Armando, 1925-2001

Subject

• Ludwig, II, King of Bavaria, 1845-1886 -- Drama
• Mentally ill -- Germany | Bavaria -- Biography | Drama
• Motion pictures, Italian
• Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883 -- Drama
• Bavaria (Germany) -- Kings and rulers -- Biography | Drama
• Composers -- Germany -- Biography | Drama
• Feature films
• Foreign films -- Italy
• Homosexuality -- Psychological aspects -- Drama
• Gay men -- Germany | Bavaria -- Biography | Drama

Genre

• Biography
• Drama

Language

• ita
• eng
• eng
• ita
• ita

Summary

Visconti's lavish portrait of Ludwig II, the 'Mad King' of Bavaria. From his glittering coronation to his mysterious suicide, Ludwig II (Helmut Berger) epitomised the doomed nineteenth-century Romantic hero. A loner by nature, he was tormented by his unrequited love for his cousin, Empress Elisabeth of Austria (Romy Schneider), who sensed his true sexual nature and fragile grip on reality. But as war raged around him, Ludwig's sole obsession remained the visionary music of Richard Wagner (Trevor Howard), and he retreated more and more into a fantasy world, alarming his ministers through his irrational behaviour, neglect of state affairs and lavish expenditure on several fairytale castles. Judged unfit to rule, Ludwig was eventually declared insane

Cataloging source

MLN

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Cinematography by Armando Nannuzzi; film editing by Ruggero Mastroianni; production design by Mario Chiari and Mario Scisci; costume design by Piero Tosi; makeup artist, Alberto De Rossi; hair stylist, Grazia De Rossi; music by Robert Schumann, Richard Wagner, Jacques Offenbach

Language note

Italian or English dialogue; English subtitles; subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH)

PerformerNote

Helmut Berger (Ludwig); Trevor Howard (Richard Wagner); Silvana Mangano (Cosima Von Buelow); Romy Schneider (Elisabeth of Austria); Gert Fröbe (Father Hoffmann); Helmut Griem (Count Duerckheim); Izabella Telezynska (queen mother); Umberto Orsini (Count von Holstein); John Moulder-Brown (Prince Otto); Sonia Petrovna (Sophie); Folker Bohnet (Joseph Kainz); Heinz Moog (Professor Gudden); Adriana Asti (Lila Von Buliowski); Marc Porel (Richard Hornig); Nora Ricci (Countess Ida Ferenczy); Mark Burns (Hans Von Buelow); Maurizio Bonuglia (mayor)

Runtime

497

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Technique

live action