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‘Death in Venice screwed up my life’ – the tragic story of Visconti’s ‘beautiful boy’ - Björn Andrésen was the striking child star of the classic film, the perfect embodiment of youthful beauty. Fifty years on, he is still haunted by the exploitation that continued long after filming stopped
Björn Andrésen was just 15 when he walked straight into the lion’s den, being cast as Tadzio, the sailor-suited object of desire in Luchino Visconti ’s film Death in Venice. Its release in 1971 made him not merely a star but an instant icon – the embodiment of pristine youthful beauty.
A new film shows how actor Björn Andrésen was damaged by playing a teen object of desire in Visconti’s 1971 classic. Is child stardom any healthier now, asks Sophie Monks Kaufman.
- Sophie Monks Kaufman
Death in Venice (German: Der Tod in Venedig) is a novella by German author Thomas Mann, published in 1912. [1] It presents an ennobled writer who visits Venice and is liberated, uplifted, and then increasingly obsessed by the sight of a boy in a family of Polish tourists—Tadzio, a nickname for Tadeusz.
- Thomas Mann
- 1912
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Jul 22, 2021 · Yet we were both fairly young when he died in May 1999 – late teens and early 20s – and he'd been off the scene for quite some time, happily retired in France – so where did your affection ...
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May 8, 2024 · The same is true for Death in Venice – death proves to be both very literal and metaphorical. It concerns the state of the soul, music, and situations where an entire city dies, along with the idea behind the genius who desires to be human.
