Ludwig (Blu-ray + DVD)
Ludwig. He loved women. He loved men. He lived as controversially as he ruled. But he did not care what the world thought. He was the world.
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Also released as:
Ludwig [Standard Edition] (Blu-Ray)
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Blu-ray Details
- Number of Discs: 4
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: April 11, 2017
- Originally Released: 1973
- Label: Arrow Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Helmut Berger, Romy Schneider & Trevor Howard | |
| Performer: | Gert Fröbe, Silvana Mangano, Helmut Griem, Umberto Orsini, Adriana Asti, Marc Porel & Mark Burns | |
| Directed by | Luchino Visconti | |
| Edited by | Ruggero Mastroianni | |
| Screenplay by | Luchino Visconti & Enrico Medioli | |
| Art Direction by | Mario Chiari | |
| Director of Photography: | Armando Nannuzzi |
Entertainment Reviews:
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Built mostly around medium close-ups and dark interiors, the film creates a sense of isolation that matches the lead character's own state of mind.
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Village Voice
An unconscious parody of Visconti's own embattled romanticism, a diatribe against "privileged liberty," an old morality play in which the free soul is the damned soul-a dyspeptic Visconti, as it were, lecturing himself.
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The New York Review of Books
Ludwig continues to be an admirable spectacle. [Full Review in Spanish]
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El Pais (Spain)
Rating: 1/4 --
Perhaps only Visconti, who seems obsessed with the gloomy side of decadence, could have made Ludwig II of Bavaria seem boring.
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Chicago Sun-Times
Grand and melancholy...
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New Yorker
It can feel cumbersome, frustratingly disjointed, at times certainly a heavy watch. And yet this full-length Ludwig... feels today like a painting whose images and forms can be at least freshly recognized.
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Film Comment Magazine
Rating: 2/4 --
Ultimately hollow and historically inaccurate.
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TV Guide
Product Description:
Keeping in step with the themes of THE DAMNED and DEATH IN VENICE, Luchino Visconti's final entry in his "German Trilogy" further explores issues of complicated and repressed sexuality. A lush, atmospheric dramatization of a tormented Bavarian king's brief but colorful reign, LUDWIG traces the ruler's loves for Elisabeth of Austria (his cousin) and composer Richard Wagner, culminating with his final descent into madness.
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