Morte a Venezia (Death in Venice)

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Taken from Thomas Mann's novella, Morte a Venezia (Death in Venice) (1971) is exactly what its title claims it to be: a film about Venice and a film about death. Gustav von Aschenbach arrives in Venice in search of spiritual refreshment. But everything disturbs him, including - and especially - the vision of a beautiful young boy on holiday at the Lido with his mother and sisters. There are two deaths in the film, that of Aschenbach, crumbling away under his mask, and that of Venice itself, crumbling into the lagoon.