Name: The Birth of the Leopard
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 90 min
Rating: 9.3

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The only novel written by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard (Il Gattopardo, 1958), just like its screen adaptation by Luchino Visconti, is considered a masterpiece. This film tells about the life of Tomasi and his German-Baltic wife Alexandra von Wolff-Stomersee – their unusual love story. The chaos of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and World War II forced Alexandra to leave St. Petersburg and later on – the family's castle in Stāmeriena, Latvia. During the war, in 1943, she fled to her husband in Palermo, where she would live until the day she died.

Director

Luigi Falorni

Producers

Jörg Bundschuh, Gints Grūbe, Elīna Gediņa-Ducena

Studio

Kick Film, Mistrus Media

Original Title

Die Geburt des Leoparden

Original Language

German