The Leopard

1963, History/Drama, 2h 45m

48 Reviews 5,000+ Ratings

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Lavish and wistful, The Leopard features epic battles, sumptuous costumes, and a ballroom waltz that competes for most beautiful sequence committed to film. Read critic reviews

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Movie Info

As Garibaldi's troops begin the unification of Italy in the 1860s, an aristocratic Sicilian family grudgingly adapts to the sweeping social changes undermining their way of life. Proud but pragmatic Prince Don Fabrizio Salina (Burt Lancaster) allows his war hero nephew, Tancredi (Alain Delon), to marry Angelica (Claudia Cardinale), the beautiful daughter of gauche, bourgeois Don Calogero, in order to maintain the family's accustomed level of comfort and political clout.

Rating:

PG
Genre:

History, Drama
Original Language:

Italian
Director:

Luchino Visconti
Producer:

Goffredo Lombardo
Writer:

Suso Cecchi d'Amico, Pasquale Festa Campanile, Enrico Medioli, Massimo Franciosa, Luchino Visconti
Release Date (Theaters):

Jul 15, 1963 original
Release Date (Streaming):

Jun 8, 2004
Runtime:

2h 45m
Distributor:

20th Century Fox
Sound Mix:

Mono
Aspect Ratio:

35mm

Cast & Crew

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

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Critic Reviews for The Leopard

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Audience Reviews for The Leopard

Jan 18, 2021

A lesser movie would have Corbera become a tragic figure simply because an ever changing world no longer finds him or his generation relevant but instead he's granted a kind of clarity about the harsh realities of revolutions (i.e. if society changes too quickly, it will simply stay the same or get worse) that isn't afforded to the other characters. This has the effect of robbing the dying nobility, their brash, young replacements, and the revolutionaries of any sympathy which is an impressive feat on Visconti's part.

Alec B Super Reviewer
Jan 09, 2020

The costumes and locations are beyond exceptional. Add a fantastic cast headed by the ever-restrained Burt Lancaster and you've got a spectacular film.

Christian C Super Reviewer
Apr 18, 2013

Lancaster's unlikely appearance in this Italian film is memorable across the film's epic length.

John B Super Reviewer
Nov 30, 2012

Visconti remembers the good ole days (ala Gone With The Wind) of an stately affected upper class ruling the dirty lower classes with humble grace and dignity (only this story's set in Sicily, though at about at nearly the same time), and their fading demise ... whatever (I got no sympathy at all for sad rich folks mooning over the good ol'days, sorry). Sumptuously filmed and orchestrated, with loads of loving details and drenched in melancholy (like GWTW), its about the changing of the guard, and maybe that is sad. The cast is worthy if the subject isn't.

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