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The Birth of the Leopard (2019)

The Birth of the Leopard (2019)

Documentary
Release Date: 2019, October 22
Directors: Luigi Falorni
Countries: Germany, Italy, Latvia
Production: Kick Film, Mistrus Media

Overview:

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.