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Cinematography
Every frame is a painting—literally, Visconti planned them that way.
Direction
The ballroom sequence: cinema's most exquisite funeral for a way of life.
Costume
200 costumes, all historically accurate, all dripping with doomed grandeur.

Director
Luchino Visconti
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