Released
The Birth of the Leopard
October 22 2019 (over 5 years ago)Rating
93
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- Director: Luigi Falorni
- Genre: Documentary
- Runtime: 1 h 30 m
- Countries: Germany, Italy, Latvia
- Companies: Kick Film, Mistrus Media
The only novel written by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard (Il Gattopardo, 1958), just like its screen adaptation by Luchino Visconti, is considered a masterpiece. This film tells about the life of Tomasi and his German-Baltic wife Alexandra von Wolff-Stomersee – their unusual love story. The chaos of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and World War II forced Alexandra to leave St. Petersburg and later on – the family's castle in Stāmeriena, Latvia. During the war, in 1943, she fled to her husband in Palermo, where she would live until the day she died.