Björn Andrésen, the Swedish boy who played the character of Tadzio in
Luchino Visconti s legendary
Death in Venice, has just world-premiered in the World Cinema Documentary Competition of the Sundance Film Festival.
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In 1970, Visconti was travelling Europe in search of the boy who would embody the perfect beauty that Thomas Mann described in his seminal novel. A wealth of impressive archive material shows the imposing, aristocratic, communist, openly gay auteur and the young actor during the casting, the filming, the world premiere in London and the press conference at the Cannes Film Festival, where the director comments on how the boy s beauty is already past its prime.