The Leopard (1963) Il gattopardo (original title)

Director:

Luchino Visconti

Writers:

Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (novel)
Suso Cecchi D'Amico (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:

15 July 1963 (USA)

Genre:

Drama | History

Tagline:

Luchino Visconti's Enduring Romantic Adventure

Plot:

The Prince of Salina, a noble aristocrat of impeccable integrity, tries to preserve his family and class amid the tumultuous social upheavals of 1860's Sicily.

Plot Keywords:

Prince | 1860s | Noble | Sicily | Ball

Awards:

Nominated for Oscar. Another 8 wins & 5 nominations

Cast

Burt Lancaster	...	Prince Don Fabrizio Salina
Claudia Cardinale	...	Angelica Sedara / Bertiana
Alain Delon	...	Tancredi Falconeri
Paolo Stoppa	...	Don Calogero Sedara
Rina Morelli	...	Princess Maria Stella Salina
Romolo Valli	...	Father Pirrone
Terence Hill	...	Count Cavriaghi (as Mario Girotti)
Pierre Clémenti	...	Francesco Paolo
Lucilla Morlacchi	...	Concetta
Giuliano Gemma	...	Garibaldi's General
Ida Galli	...	Carolina
Ottavia Piccolo	...	Caterina
Carlo Valenzano	...	Paolo
Brook Fuller	...	Little Prince
Anna Maria Bottini	...	Mademoiselle Dombreuil, the Governess
Lola Braccini	...	Donna Margherita
Marino Masé	...	Tutor (as Marino Mase')
Howard Nelson Rubien	...	Don Diego (as Howard N. Rubien)
Tina Lattanzi
Marcella Rovena
Rina De Liguoro	...	Princess of Presicce
Valerio Ruggeri
Giovanni Melisenda	...	Don Onofrio Rotolo
Giancarlo Lolli		(as Carlo Lolli)
Franco Gulà
Vittorio Duse
Vanni Materassi
Giuseppe Stagnitti
Carmelo Artale
Olimpia Cavalli	...	Mariannina
Anna Maria Surdo
Halina Zalewska		(as Alina Zalewska)
Winni Riva
Stelvio Rosi
Carlo Palmucci
Dante Posani
Rosolino Bua
Ivo Garrani	...	Colonel Pallavicino
Leslie French	...	Cavalier Chevally
Serge Reggiani	...	Don Francisco Ciccio Tumeo
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Marie Bell	...	(uncredited)
Lou Castel	...	Party guest (uncredited)
Sandra Christolini	...	Youngest Daughter (uncredited)
Maurizio Merli	...	(uncredited)
Augusto Pescarini	...	(uncredited)
Paola Piscini	...	(uncredited)
Amalia Troiani	...	(uncredited)

Directed by
Luchino Visconti

Writing credits
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa		(novel)
Suso Cecchi D'Amico		(screenplay and adaptation) &
Pasquale Festa Campanile		(screenplay and adaptation) and
Enrico Medioli		(screenplay and adaptation) &
Massimo Franciosa		(screenplay and adaptation) and
Luchino Visconti		(screenplay and adaptation)

Produced by
Goffredo Lombardo	....	producer
Pietro Notarianni	....	executive producer

Original Music by
Nino Rota

Cinematography by
Giuseppe Rotunno

Film Editing by
Mario Serandrei

Production Design by
Mario Garbuglia

Set Decoration by
Laudomia Hercolani
Giorgio Pes

Costume Design by
Piero Tosi

Makeup Department
Maria Angelini	....	wig maker
Alberto De Rossi	....	makeup artist
Amalia Paoletti	....	wig maker
Giancarlo De Leonardis	....	hair stylist (uncredited)
Robert J. Schiffer	....	makeup artist (uncredited)

Production Management
Giorgio Adriani	....	production manager
Gaetano Amata	....	unit manager
Riccardo Caneva	....	unit manager
Roberto Cocco	....	unit manager
Lamberto Pippia	....	assistant unit manager
Enzo Provenzale	....	production manager
Umberto Sambuco	....	assistant unit manager
Bruno Sassaroli	....	unit manager
Gilberto Scarpellini	....	unit manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Albino Cocco	....	first assistant director
Brad Fuller	....	second assistant director
Francesco Massaro	....	second assistant director
Rinaldo Ricci	....	first assistant director

Art Department
Emilio D'Andria	....	assistant set decorator
Ferdinando Giovannoni	....	assistant art director

Sound Department
Mario Messina	....	sound engineer

Special Effects by
Dino Galiano	....	special effects technician (uncredited)

Camera and Electrical Department
Enrico Cignitti	....	camera operator
Nino Cristiani	....	camera operator
Giuseppe Maccari	....	camera operator
G.B. Poletto	....	still photographer
Bob Penn	....	still photographer: special magazine assignment (uncredited)
Piero Servo	....	camera loader (uncredited)

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Bice Brichetto	....	assistant costume designer
Alessandro Gasparinetti	....	wardrobe consultant
Vera Marzot	....	assistant costume designer

Music Department
Franco Ferrara	....	conductor
Franco Ferrara	....	musical director
Nino Rota	....	music arranger (uncredited)

Other crew
Stephan Iscovescu	....	script supervisor
René Barjavel	....	dialogue: french version (uncredited)
Isa Bellini	....	voice dubbing: Anna Maria Bottini (uncredited)
Lando Buzzanca	....	voice dubbing: Serge Reggiani (uncredited)
Pino Colizzi	....	voice dubbing: Pierre Clémenti (uncredited)
Solveyg D'Assunta	....	voice dubbing: Claudia Cardinale (uncredited)
Franco Fabrizi	....	voice dubbing: Terence Hill (uncredited)
Corrado Gaipa	....	voice dubbing: Burt Lancaster (uncredited)
Sydney Pollack	....	dubbed version supervisor: USA (uncredited)
Carlo Sabatini	....	voice dubbing: Alain Delon (uncredited)
Alberto Testa	....	choreographer (uncredited)
Jacques Willemetz	....	dubbing director: french version (uncredited)

Production Companies

• Titanus (Rome)
• Société Nouvelle Pathé Cinéma (as S.N. Pathé Cinéma)
• Société Générale de Cinématographie (S.G.C.) (Paris)

Distributors

• Centfox (1963) (West Germany) (theatrical)
• Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation (1963) (USA) (theatrical) (cut version)
• Fox Films (1964) (Finland) (theatrical)
• American Broadcasting Company (ABC) (1967) (USA) (TV)
• Ciné Libre (1996) (Belgium) (theatrical) (restored version)
• Medusa Home Entertainment (2003) (Italy) (DVD) (restored) (dubbed)
• 1More Film (2004) (Netherlands) (theatrical) (re-release)
• Crest International (2004) (Japan) (theatrical) (restored) (revival)
• A-Film Home Entertainment (2004) (Netherlands) (DVD)
• Criterion Collection, The (2004) (USA) (DVD) (restored)
• Criterion Collection, The (2004) (USA) (DVD) (special edition)
• Koch Media (2004) (Germany) (DVD) (restored)
• Koch Media (2004) (Germany) (DVD) (special edition)
• Madman Entertainment (2004) (Australia) (DVD) (restored)
• Madman Entertainment (2004) (New Zealand) (DVD)
• Versátil Home Vídeo (2004) (Brazil) (DVD) (restored)
• Seven Films (2007) (Greece) (theatrical) (re-release) (restored)
• Seven Films (2007) (Greece) (theatrical) (reissue)
• British Film Institute (BFI) (2009) (UK) (DVD) (blu-ray)
• Radio Films S.A.E. S.A. (????) (Spain) (theatrical)
• Criterion Collection, The (????) (USA) (DVD)
• De Agostini (????) (Italy) (VHS)
• L'Unitá Video (????) (Italy) (VHS)
• Medusa Home Entertainment (????) (Italy) (VHS)
• Mondadori Video (????) (Italy) (VHS) (restored version)
• Titanus - Creazione Home Video (????) (Italy) (VHS)
• Tocantins (????) (Brazil) (VHS)

Other Companies

• Filippo Haas & Figli  thanks: fabrics
• Reanda  wardrobe: Mr. Lancster and Mr. Delon
• S.A.F.A.S.  wardrobe (as Safas)
• Studios de Billancourt  french dubbing recorded at (uncredited)
• Tirelli Costumi  costumes (uncredited)
• Titanus  music publishing company
• Westrex Recording System  sound recording system

Also Known As:

"Il gattopardo" - Italy (original title)

Runtime:

187 min | Spain:151 min (cut version) | UK:161 min (cut version) | USA:165 min (cut version) | France:195 min (Cannes Film Festival) | 205 min (premiere version) | West Germany:161 min (cut version)

Country:

Italy | France

Language:

Italian | Latin | French

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.20 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (Westrex Recording System)

Certification:

Argentina:13 | Australia:PG | Finland:K-12 | Netherlands:12 | Sweden:11 | UK:PG (video rating) | UK:U (original rating) | USA:PG (certificate #20553) | Hong Kong:IIB | Germany:12 | Portugal:M/12 | Australia:M (TV rating) | West Germany:12 (f) | Norway:12 (re-rating) (1985) | Norway:16 (original rating) | Brazil:14 | France:U | Finland:K-11 (new rating: 2001) | Singapore:PG

Filming Locations:

Ariccia, Rome, Lazio, Italy

Company:

Titanus

Trivia:

Darryl F. Zanuck, whose studio put up financing for the film, did not want Burt Lancaster to wear a mustache. Zanuck, himself, wore a mustache.

Goofs:

Miscellaneous: During one of the long shots of the journey to Donnafugata, a blur crosses the screen near the center, apparently caused by a fly crawling over the lens.

Quotes:

Prince Don Fabrizio Salina:Things will have to change in order that they remain the same.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Don't Say No Until I Finish Talking: The Story of Richard D. Zanuck (2013)

Soundtrack:

Themes from The Leopard

The lost world

Could it be that Visconti's 1963 epic--long lying in ruins until its 1983 partial restoration--is the greatest movie ever made? The real subject of this movie, surely the wisest and most beautiful of all "period pictures," is the twentieth century--what has been gained and above all what is lost. Only a Marxist duke like Visconti could have had the split sensibility, and the anecdotal knowhow, to render Sicily just before its entry to modernity with the splendor and the caginess that radiates through every frame of this masterpiece. As the prince making final compromises before leaving the faded world he has inherited, Burt Lancaster gives one of the greatest performances in movies. Possessed of both an elegiac melancholy and a shrewd, dry-eyed appraisal of the failures and the glorious extroversion of its aristocratic world, THE LEOPARD is like a dream you can't bear to let go of. Contemporary viewers will see echoes of THE DEER HUNTER, 1900 and THE AGE OF INNOCENCE--and will see those films shrivel to the size of cocktail franks.