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The Most Beautiful Boy in the World

Original title: Världens vackraste pojke
  • 20212021
  • 1h 33m
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Björn Andrésen in The Most Beautiful Boy in the World (2021)
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In 1971, due to the world premiere of Death in Venice, Italian director Luchino Visconti proclaimed his Tadzio as the world's most beautiful boy. 50 years later, that shadow still weighs upo... Read allIn 1971, due to the world premiere of Death in Venice, Italian director Luchino Visconti proclaimed his Tadzio as the world's most beautiful boy. 50 years later, that shadow still weighs upon Björn Andresen's life.In 1971, due to the world premiere of Death in Venice, Italian director Luchino Visconti proclaimed his Tadzio as the world's most beautiful boy. 50 years later, that shadow still weighs upon Björn Andresen's life.
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    • Kristina Lindström
    • Kristian Petri
    • Kristina Lindström
    • Kristian Petri
  • Stars
    • Kristina Lindström(voice)
    • Luchino Visconti(archive footage)
    • Mario Tursi(archive footage)
    • Kristina Lindström
    • Kristian Petri
    • Kristina Lindström
    • Kristian Petri
  • Stars
    • Kristina Lindström(voice)
    • Luchino Visconti(archive footage)
    • Mario Tursi(archive footage)
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    • 15User reviews
    • 67Critic reviews
    • 73Metascore
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    Kristina Lindström
    • Narrator
    • (voice)
    Luchino Visconti
    Luchino Visconti
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    Mario Tursi
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    • (as Mario)
    Björn Andrésen
    Björn Andrésen
    • Self
    Dagny Erixon
    • self, Björn Andrésen's grandmother
    • (archive footage)
    Jessica Vennberg
    • self - Björn Andrésen's girlfriend
    Margareta Krantz
    • Self - Casting director
    • (voice)
    Miriam Sambol
    • Self - governess
    • (voice)
    Queen Elizabeth II
    Queen Elizabeth II
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    Princess Anne
    Princess Anne
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    Ann Lagerström
    • self - Björn Andrésen's childhood frien
    • (voice)
    Hajime Sawatari
    • Self - Photographer
    • (voice)
    Max Seki
    • Self - Manager
    Masatoshi Sakai
    • Self - Music Producer
    Riyoko Ikeda
    • Self - Manga Artist
    Barbro Andrésen
    • self, Björn Andrésen's mother
    • (archive footage)
    Annike Andresen
    • self - Björn Andrésen's sister
    Silva Filmer
    • self - Björn Andrésen's mothers friend
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      • Kristian Petri
      • Kristina Lindström
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    • Trivia
      Filming took place over five years
    • Alternate versions
      The version shown on TV in Germany and France is only 52 minutes long.
    • Connections
      Features Death in Venice (1971)
    • Soundtracks
      Ugly and Vengeful
      Written by Anna Von Hausswolff, Filip Leyman & Karl Vento

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    6/10
    More intriguing than illuminating
    This is a fascinating documentary, particularly for anyone who knows Luchino Visconti's Death in Venice and is therefore already acquainted with the haunting beauty of the young Bjorn Andresen, who played Tadzio. The Most Beautiful Boy in the World is sumptuously photographed and deftly edited to create a legend around Andresen's main claim to fame - and therein lies the problem. It gradually becomes apparent that the producer-directors of this doco are hellbent on the main narrative being that of a beautiful innocent corrupted and all but destroyed by his youthful brush with movie fame. While nobody ever explicitly speaks in terms of a Death in Venice curse, it's very much implied in the shots of an aged and frail Andresen gazing along the same beach where his younger, more carefree self frolicked while making the film; and in the all-to-clear parallels between the lost, lonely old Andresen and Dirk Bogarde's pathetic, crumbling Aschenbach. What's troubling is that the documentary makers are quite clearly determined not to allow too many facts to get in the way of their myth-making. The emphasis is all on instant fame and the pressures of being labelled "The Most Beautiful Boy in the World" leading to Andresen having a deeply troubled life. In fact, this is 90% of the film, with stern fingers pointed at Andresen's fame-obsessed grandmother and some sly, not-entirely-justified jabs at Visconti for their parts in exploiting the boy. There's much less examination of Andresen dealing with a mentally unstable mother, his mother's grisly death when he was still a child, his loss of his own child to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome or his struggles as a husband and father. All of these likely had a bigger impact on Andresen's life than briefly being a poster boy for youthful beauty, and they can't all be conveniently traced directly to his Death in Venice experience. The filmmakers also curiously omit any mention of Andresen actually having a fairly extensive film and TV career after Death in Venice, leaving the false impression that playing Tadzio not only led nowhere, but more or less destroyed him. Frankly, by the end of this weirdly deceitful exercise I formed the impression that Bjorn Andresen has been more egregiously wronged by The Most Beautiful Boy in the World than he ever was by Death in Venice.
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      • October 15, 2021 (Sweden)
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      • Grand Hôtel des Bains, Lido di Venezia, Italy
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      • Mantaray Film
      • Sveriges Television (SVT)
      • Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF)
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